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css image question

Keewee6 · 2010-12-22 11:21:08

i have a border around my image but im trying to leave space between the image and the border img { border:5px; border-style:dashed; border-color:red; } any help would be great thanks

22-12-2010 12:21PM

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Keewee6

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i have a border around my image but im trying to leave space between the image and the border

img
{
border:5px;
border-style:dashed;
border-color:red;

}

any help would be great thanks

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#2 22-12-2010 12:41PM

Liam Byrne

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I don't think padding will work on an image.

You need to put a <div> around the image, put a border on the div, and then put a margin or border on the img.

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#3 30-12-2010 05:37PM

DonkeyStyle \o/

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I've used padding before, seems fine.

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#4 30-12-2010 07:18PM

Liam Byrne

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DonkeyStyle \o/ wrote: »

I've used padding before, seems fine.

Apparently so!

http://www.bennadel.com/blog/980-Images-Can-Have-CSS-Padding-Crazy-Saucy-.htm

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