CSS Margin Code Tutorials

How to set the top margin property of a paragraph using percentage values

The code below shows you how to set the top margin property of a paragraph using percentage values.

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">

<head>
<title>Web Development Tutorials.com</title>

<style type="text/css">
p.one
{
margin-top: 25%;
border: thin double #000000;
}
</style>

</head>
<body>
<p>
This paragraph has no specified margins.
</p>
<p class="one">
This paragraph has a specified top margin of 25%.
</p>
<p>
This paragraph has no specified margins.
</p>
</body>
</html>

The code above creates the paragraphs below.

This paragraph has no specified margins.

This paragraph has a specified margin of 25%.

This paragraph has no specified margins.

Use the text editor below to practice what you have learned.