CSS help

[pwf269]

hello, i am a new learner in building websites. i am currently working on the"Build your own website the right way using html & css.". I seem to be having trouble with separating my navigation from the tagline. As soon as i put a border around the navigation part is seems to connect itself to the tagline part. How do i go about separating my navigation from the tagline. Here is my coding Thankyou for your help.

/*
CSS for Bubble Under Site
*/



p {
	font weight: bold;
	color: navy;
}


#tagline   {
	height:25px;
	font-style: italic;
	font-family: Georgia, Times, serif;
	background-color: clear;
	padding-left: .8em;
	padding-bottom: .8em;
	border: 1px solid navy;
}

body {
	font-family:  Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;
background-color:#e2edff;
line-height: 125%;
padding:6px;
border: 4px solid navy;

}


#navigation {
	border: 1px solid navy;
	width: 180px;
	height: 100px;
	border-top:;
	background-color:violet;
	
		
}






h1, h2, h3 {
	font family:  Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;
	background-color: orange;
	color: white;
}


h1{
	font family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;
	font-size: x-large;
	background-color: navy;
	color: white;
	padding-top: 2em;
	padding-bottom: .2em;
	padding-left: .7em;
}



h2 {
	border: 1px solid navy;
	color: navy;
	font-size: 150%;
	font-weight:normal;
	font-style:italic;
	text-decoration:;
	padding-top: 10px;	
	padding-bottom: 10px;
}

li {
	font-size: medium;
}



em {
	
	text-transform: uppercase;
}




a   {
	font-weight: bold;
	
}

a: link {
	color: black;
}

a: visited  {
	color: navy;
}

a: hover  {
	text-decoration: none;
	color: white;
	background-color: navy;
}

a: active  {
	color: aqua;
	backgrond-color: navy;
}

.fun {
	color: #339999;
	font-family: Georgia, Times, serif;
	letter-spacing: 0.10em;
}

[samanime]

It's a bit hard to tell without any HTML, but it looks like you just need to add margin-bottom to navigation or margin-top to tagline (or if the tagline is above the navigation, flip those around).

Margin is the space in between elements. Whenever you need to separate any elements, look towards margin. =)

I'm going to move this thread to the CSS forum, since it'll probably get more replies there if you have more trouble.

[RyanReese]

I'd have to agree with samanime as to the correct way to handle this situation.

If you would continue with the book, I'm sure they would get to the part about explaining margins . How far have you read in the book?

[pwf269]

Thankyou again, it worked.

[Paul O'B]

As mentioned above please post the html that goes with that because css on its own doesn't really mean much apart from obvious typos etc. (Not all members would have that book to refer to so you need to post it as a stand alone question.)

[pwf269]

im up to the part about padding, but as i look further down, the next couple of pages, is about margins, thankyou for your help also

[pwf269]

thankyou for your help also, i will include the html with the css. i definitely am learning alot in this forum. thanks again.