<!-- CSS:Basics snippet 9. -->
<!-- Margins and padding. -->

<!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" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
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<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>View snippet page</title>
<style type="text/css">
/* setting individual margins */ 
#para1 {
	font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
	font-size: 20px;
	color: #000000;
	background-color: #3399FF;
	margin-top:20px;
	margin-right:50px;
	margin-bottom:20px;
	margin-left:50px;
	}
/* setting padding */ 
#para2 {
	font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
	font-size: 20px;
	color: #000000;
	background-color: #3399FF;
	padding-top:20px;
	padding-right:50px;
	padding-bottom:20px;
	padding-left:50px;
	}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<p id="para1">Paragraph text with margins.</p>
<p id="para2">Paragraph text with padding.</p>

</body>
</html>