> Sarah, the unexplained margins are the default margins from the browser > for the paragraphs. If you add, > p {margin: 0; padding: 0; } into your css, you'll see the margins go away. This does seem to work, and yet it seems like an awfully extreme way to get rid of these margins. Can anyone suggest a way to keep paragraph margins but get rid of the margins around my content div? -- sarah sweeney family: http://geekjock.ca wedding: http://wedding.geekjock.ca blog: http://hardedge.ca portfolio: http://sarah.designshift.com