CSS Spacing – The Difference Between Margin and Padding

There are 2 spacing properties that can be used with CSS for your blog design.  You can use MARGIN and / or PADDING.  So when do you use them?  What’s the difference between them?  In this tutorial we will be discussing CSS Spacing – the difference between margin and padding.

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The Training — Understanding CSS spacing: the difference between margin & padding:

Margin and padding are the 2 ways we can space out the elements within our blog designs. Sometimes these properties can be confused … but they actually do very different things, and space things quite differently.

Basically … the quick answer is that margin allows for space OUTSIDE the border of an element, whereas padding adds space INSIDE the element’s border.

Both of these are coded separately … so check out this video tutorial to learn how to use both margin and padding…