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Why is the attribute "leftmargin" in the HTML body tag ignored by Firefox?

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cees68
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Check f.i. http://www.vaartips.nl/tipa.htm and see the difference (left margin) between FF and IE. De "leftmargin 20" is ignored (not working) in FF (see code of the page)

Check f.i. http://www.vaartips.nl/tipa.htm and see the difference (left margin) between FF and IE. De "leftmargin 20" is ignored (not working) in FF (see code of the page)

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philipp
philipp
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hello, <body leftmargin="20"> is not html-compliant souce code.

you could add body { margin-left:20px } in the css-style section instead... 

<head>
<style type="text/css">
body { margin-left:20px }
...
</style>
</head>

http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.vaartips.nl%2Ftipa.htm&charset=%28detect+automatically%29&doctype=Inline&group=0

cor-el
cor-el
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See also https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla_Quirks_Mode_Behavior

The topmargin, bottommargin, leftmargin, and rightmargin attributes on BODY are supported only in quirks mode (bug 9258).

cees68
cees68 Question owner

Problem is solved. Thank you!