# CSS Margin

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/css-margin/226507>\
**Category:** web dev\
**Created:** [May 21, 2007, 11:00pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/css-margin/226507 "2007-05-21T23:00:57Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
**Page:** 1

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**Author:** ![rschoenbach](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7cd45c/32.png) [@rschoenbach](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/rschoenbach)\
**Post date:** [May 21, 2007, 11:00pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/css-margin/226507/1 "2007-05-21T23:00:57Z")

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Please check out [http://dev.ryanschoenbach.com/test/test.php](http://dev.ryanschoenbach.com/test/test.php)

I cant figure out why my css isnt giving me the correct margins at the top of the page.

```auto

body {
    margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px;
    }
#layout {
    padding: 0px;
    margin-bottom: 0px; 
    margin-left: auto; 
    margin-right: auto; 
    margin-top: 0px;
    }
#tabs {
    background: #0066FF;
    }
#tabs ul li { 
    display: inline;
    color: #FFFFFF; 
    text-align: center; 
    list-style-type: none;
    }
#tabs ul li a { 
    text-decoration: none;
    color: inherit;
    }
#tabs ul li a:hover {
    text-decoration: underline; 
    color: inherit;
    }

```