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Can I script the left margin of a page?

Mar 22nd, 2000 07:23
Martin Honnen,

IE4+ only supports the 
 <BODY LEFTMARGIN="20">
HTML attribute which you can script as
  document.body.leftMargin 
Note that it is a string so if you want to add values use parseInt on 
it:

<HTML>
<HEAD>
</HEAD>
<BODY LEFTMARGIN="20" 
      ONCLICK="document.body.leftMargin = 
                 parseInt(document.body.leftMargin) + 5;"
>
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</BODY>
</HTML>

Anyway the better way to specify margins is css so use
  <BODY STYLE="margin-left: 20px;">
and script
  document.body.style.marginLeft
and you have style settings and code running in IE4+ and NN6 (or NN6 as 
they seem to intend to call it). Example

<HTML>
<HEAD>
<SCRIPT>
</SCRIPT>
</HEAD>
<BODY STYLE="margin-left: 20px;" 
      ONCLICK="var ml = parseInt(document.body.style.marginLeft);
                 document.body.style.marginLeft = (ml + 5) + 'px';"
>
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</BODY>
</HTML>

NN4 will honour the css left-margin setting for BODY but doesn't allow 
to change it with scripting (unless you reload the complete page and 
rewrite it).