I feel like this must be an issue of me doing something silly, but I can't figure it out. Here's a demo page showing my problem. The source of the page:
<html>
<head>
<title>demo</title>
<style type='text/css'>
body{
margin: 0px;
padding: 0px;
}
#container{
height: 100%;
background-color: black;
}
#logo{
margin: 25px auto auto auto;
width: 360px;
height: 45px;
background-color: goldenrod;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id='container'>
<div id='logo'>
<p>logotext.</p>
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
So the more you adjust the top value of margin, the further down the page both #logo and #container get dragged. #container should stay put and #logo should be shifting down the page.
This is caused by collapsing margins. If two elements have touching margins, then the margins merge. There is a great explanation of this here. Go to the section called Collapsing Margins Between Parent and Child Elements.
Here are three different solutions.
One is to add overflow: auto to the container. This changes the BCF (Block Formatting Context). This technique is described in more detail here.
#container {
height: 100%;
background-color: black;
/* Add oveflow auto to container */
overflow: auto;
}
http://jsfiddle.net/bzVgV/20/
A second is to use padding on the container instead of a margin on logo. This takes margins out of the equation.
#container {
height: 100%;
background-color: black;
/* Use padding on container instead of margin on logo */
padding-top: 30px;
}
http://jsfiddle.net/bzVgV/18/
A final solution is to make the margins no longer touch. You can do this by adding a 1px padding to the parent.
#container {
height: 100%;
background-color: black;
/* Now margins of container and logo won't touch */
padding-top: 1px;
}
http://jsfiddle.net/bzVgV/21/
