# Margins in CSS

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**Created:** [January 22, 2004, 5:15pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/margins-in-css/99823 "2004-01-22T17:15:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![imagined](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/a87d85/32.png) [@imagined](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/imagined)\
**Post date:** [January 22, 2004, 5:15pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/margins-in-css/99823/1 "2004-01-22T17:15:05Z")

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I’m trying to set the body text margins using CSS, but they dont seem to work. This is what my CSS file looks like:

\<!-- TD  
{  
color: white;  
font-family: arial;  
font-size: 10pt;  
margin-left: 10px;  
margin-right: 10px;  
}

–\>

TD  
{  
color: white;  
font-family: arial;  
font-size: 10pt;  
margin-left: 10px;  
margin-right: 10px;  
}  
:hr:

What am I doing wrong?