Comments on: A quick study in space. Part 1: Margins http://www.edustyle.net/blog/2009/02/a-quick-study-in-space-part-1-margins/ Thu, 23 Sep 2010 19:58:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc By: Maggie http://www.edustyle.net/blog/2009/02/a-quick-study-in-space-part-1-margins/comment-page-1/#comment-771 Maggie Mon, 23 Feb 2009 18:28:13 +0000 http://www.edustyle.net/blog/?p=322#comment-771 Since we're on the subject of floating images - another really simple way to give a paragraph containing an image a nice, polished look is by ensuring that the overall image height (including any padding and borders) is an EXACT multiple of your text line-height. Doing so enables the bottom of the image to align nicely with the bottom of the text in a given line, creating a visually pleasing, balanced whitespace around the image, and preserving the flow of your paragraph. Yay! Since we’re on the subject of floating images – another really simple way to give a paragraph containing an image a nice, polished look is by ensuring that the overall image height (including any padding and borders) is an EXACT multiple of your text line-height.

Doing so enables the bottom of the image to align nicely with the bottom of the text in a given line, creating a visually pleasing, balanced whitespace around the image, and preserving the flow of your paragraph.

Yay!

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