[thelist] CSS padding, width in %

[Tony Crockford]

At 07:16 on Tuesday, 20 Jul 2004, Erik Mattheis wrote:

> What I want are 5 divs, each of which are exactly 20% window with and  
> spaced at 0%, 20%, 40%, 60% and 80% - works fine until I put padding  
> around the links inside.
>
> How can I have padding and retain the precise 20% width?

how about you put the 1px black border on the div and add a 4px border (to  
match background color) to the contained a's  that will give you the  
spacing you require and avoid the different box model applications of  
margin/padding.

hth

Tony