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Asked: 2026-05-12T05:05:06+00:00

I have a div with links in it. And I’m lining them up one

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I have a div with links in it. And I’m lining them up one over the other with <br> tags because I couldn’t figure out how to add vertical spacingn with CSS. I tried adding a bottom margin and a bottom padding to the a style rule but it didn’t seem to have any effect (why?). I could add another <br> tag to separate them more but I have to assume there’s a nicer way to do this with CSS that I just haven’t been able to figure out.

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Untitled Document</title>
<style type="text/css">
html, body 
{
    height: 100%;
    margin: 0;
    padding: 0;
    font-weight:normal;
    font-size:12pt;
    font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, serif, sans-serif;
    background:lime;
}

#linksouter
{
    margin: 0;
    padding: 0;
    border-style:solid;
    border-width:0px;
    position:absolute;
    top: 0px;
    left: 0px;
    width: 80px;
    background: blue;
    text-align:left;
}
#linksinner
{
    margin: 80px 0 0 .5em;
    width:100%;
    background:fuchsia;
    display:inline;
    height:100%;
}
#linksinner a
{
    color:red;
    text-decoration: none;
    background:yellow;
}
</style>
</head>

<body>
<div id="linksouter">
    <div id="linksinner">
    <a href="#">1</a><br />
    <a href="#">1</a><br />
    <a href="#">1</a><br />
    <a href="#">1</a><br />
    <a href="#">1</a><br />
    </div>
</div>

</body>
</html>
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  1. Editorial Team

    Vertical margin and padding only works on block level elements like div and p. a is an inline element so it wont work.

    In order to do what you want you need to add the following style to your links:

    display:block;

    only then will margin and paging for top and bottom get applied correctly

    EDIT: if you do it this way you can also get rid of the <br/> tags

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