CSS might be a total mystery to you or a topic that’s near and dear to your heart. Whether you think of CSS as a "necessary evil" or think of it as the power to control the world of technology, CSS is a must-have for anyone working on web applications. A deep knowledge of CSS can be the difference between a beautiful, polished web application and one that just feels like "meh".
In this series, I try to focus on CSS weird parts, throw quiz and its answer, hoping to give a better understanding of how CSS works in depth.
Problem:
Having the following code snippet, for two adjacent siblings divs, #div1 has a margin of 50px, #div2 has a margin of 20px.
what is the distance between those two div?
<div id="div1" style="margin: 50px;">A</div>
<div id="div2" style="margin: 20px;">B</div>
Options:
- 20px
- 30px
- 50px
- 70px
The answer:
you can find the answer below, but please give yourself a couple of minutes to think about it, to make sure you benefit from this quiz.
The correct answer is: "50px" 🎉🎉
If you wonder why this is the correct answer, please read the discussions below.
Cover image original artwork by: Sergi Delgado
Top comments (5)
First of all, because the
divis a block-level element it will take the full width of the container, so the distance between the twodivs is the vertical distance.Due to "margin collapsing", the top and bottom margins are collapsed into a single margin whose size is the largest of the individual margins, which is
50px.Adjacent margins overlap, not combine, hence 50.
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Hey folks, remember that margin collapsing happens only vertically, or better on the block axis.
Also, it doesn't apply to flex or grid items.
Thank you for sharing this 🤗🤗