Here's where the famous phrase returns: "there may beimplementation-specific limits." User agents aren'trequired to support this type of effect.
In the first place, padding and Navigator 4.x just plain don't getalong. The main problem is that you can set padding on an element it even gets to the border.
The default value of padding is 0 (zero), and padding values cannot be negative.
WARNING
Opera 3.5 allows negative padding values, but this was fixed in Opera 3.6. The other browsers don't allow negative padding lengths.
Figure 7-22. A single-line inline element with a left margin
Here, if we set values for the left or right margin, they will bevisible, as Figure 7-23 makes obvious:
B {margin-left: 10px; background: silver;}Figure 7-23. An inline element with a left margin
Note the extra space between the end of the word just before theinline element, and the edge of the inline element'sbackground. This can end up on both ends of the inline if we wish: