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CSS How to Make a Website CSS: Cascading Style Sheets Center the Wrapper

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Question on margin property?

css margin: 0 20px; is equivalent to css margin: 0 20px 0 20px;

Can anyone here explain me how right margin function? I set ```css margin: 0 20px 0 0; but I do not see any changes on web page.

It seems it only works for left , top and bottom margin.

2 Answers

Saulius K
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Saulius K
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Saulius K
Saulius K
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A right margin functions in the same way a left, top and bottom margin does.

Please post the context of the code you are working with, so we can help you out.

Could it be that you don't have anything to the right, so you visually cant see that the margin is there yet?

Vlatko .
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margin: top&bottom left&right;
margin: top right bottom left;

What you wrote should be giving whatever element you assigned it to a right margin of 20px, unless some other element is interfering with it later on in your code.