Body margins at 0 is a best practice?

[worksdev]

Hello:

Recently I read a designer's comments that reccomended,

"With rare exceptions, keep your body margins at ?0?. It's another mark of professionalism."

I was wondering if this is true? Of course, it may be an opnion issue, but is this a popular opinion?

Thanks,
worksdev

[DaveMaxwell]

Who says it isn't professional? I personally set mine to zero simply because that's the way I like them, but I wouldn't say they were unprofessional if they are there.

Here are just some sites that don't have their body margins set to 0:

msn.com (bottom set to 7)
ebay.com (no margins set)
amazon.com (no margins set)
google.com (no margins set)
cnn.com (specifically set NOT to be 0)

I would think these sites are professional, wouldn't you?

[Scud]

depends on the design of the site

[ChaCha]

Generalizations are ALWAYS wrong.

[Travis]

Well, I think the real reason anyone says this is because they think you are a better designer if you know the HTML or CSS to set the margins to 0. Of course, thats utter nonsense.

[RockyShark]

Generalizations are ALWAYS wrong.

Generally speaking, that's always true!