Rob Emenecker wrote:
>> /*div#content:first-child > * { margin-top: 0; } delete
>> ruleset*/
>>
>
>
>> /*div#sidebar:first-child > * { margin-top: 0;
>> }delete ruleset*/
>>
>
>
>> p {border: 1px solid red;margin: 0 0 15px
>> 0;}/*add ruleset*/
>>
>
> David,
>
> That works in the one example, but the purpose of me setting these the way I
> did was so that ANY element that was the FIRST element in either of those
> DIVs would have a margin-top value of 0 pixels. It's a heck of a lot less
> coding that doing a universal reset on all possible elements, and then
> having to make all vertical margin adjustments using only the bottom one.
>
> Also, this will be destined for a user-maintainable CMS setup. So while I
> could always create a "first-element" class that has a margin-top value of
> 0, I have no guarantee that the end-user content editor will remember to
> apply that class the first element --OR-- remove it if a previous
> first-element now falls lower into the content.
>
> ...Rob
>
>
>
You are way over my head, Rob. But given what you state is a given case,
then the solution may well lie within a problem solving language--
programming?
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