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Mastering margin collapsing - CSS

Mastering margin collapsing

The top and bottom margins of blocks are sometimes combined (collapsed) into a single margin whose size is the largest of the individual margins (or just one of them, if they are equal), a behavior known as margin collapsing. Note that the margins of floating and absolutely positioned elements never collapse.

Margin collapsing occurs in three basic cases:

Adjacent siblings

The margins of adjacent siblings are collapsed (except when the latter sibling needs to be cleared past floats).

No content separating parent and descendants

The vertical margins between a parent block and its descendants can collapse. This happens when there is no separating content between them. Specifically, this occurs in two main cases:

In both cases, creating a new block formatting context on the parent will also prevent its margins from collapsing with its children.

Empty blocks

If there is no border, padding, inline content, height, or min-height to separate a block's margin-top from its margin-bottom, then its top and bottom margins collapse.

Some things to note:

Examples HTML
<p>The bottom margin of this paragraph is collapsed …</p>
<p>
  … with the top margin of this paragraph, yielding a margin of
  <code>1.2rem</code> in between.
</p>

<div>
  This parent element contains two paragraphs!
  <p>
    This paragraph has a <code>.4rem</code> margin between it and the text
    above.
  </p>
  <p>
    My bottom margin collapses with my parent, yielding a bottom margin of
    <code>2rem</code>.
  </p>
</div>

<p>I am <code>2rem</code> below the element above.</p>
CSS
div {
  margin: 2rem 0;
  background: lavender;
}

p {
  margin: 0.4rem 0 1.2rem 0;
  background: yellow;
}
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