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CSS3 margin box widths
<!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" >
<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Margin box testing</title>
<style type='text/css'>
@page {
size: US-Letter;
margin: 1.5in 0.5in .5in 0.75in;
font: 11px Arial;
}
html {
background: red;
}
@page {
@top-center {
background: blue;
content: "The center box.";
}
@top-left {
background: green;
content: "Gets hidden unless there's a non-empty @top-right box.";
}
@left-middle {
background: blue;
content: "Problem doesn't occur on left/right side.";
}
@left-top {
background: green;
content: "Visible regardless of @left-bottom presence";
}
}
@page with-empty-topright {
@top-right {
background: turquoise;
content: "";
}
@left-bottom {
background: turquoise;
content: "Has no impact on @left-top size";
}
}
#with-empty-topright {
page-break-before: always;
page: with-empty-topright;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<p>
The @top-left box gets a zero width.
</p>
<p id="with-empty-topright">
Has a @top-right with content: "" and a @left-bottom, otherwise same style as last page.
</p>
</body>
</html>
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