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marginLeft style property

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Specifies or returns the left margin of the object.

With the marginLeft property you can specify the distance between the element's leftmost position and the left borderBottom.

Syntax:

object.marginLeft;

You can find the related objects in the Supported by objects section below.

This property is read/write.

CSS page for this property: margin-left

Possible values:

The type of this property is string.

One of the following values:

auto

Default. The sizes of the 'auto' margins are equal.

inherit

Takes the value of this property from the computed style of the parent element.

width in length

The width of the left margin in length units. For the supported length units, see the length page.

width in percentage

The width is the specified percentage of the width of the parent element.

Default: 0.

Example HTML code 1:

This example illustrates the use of the margin-left, border and padding properties:

<head>
    <style>
        .outer {
            border: 1px solid #ffffff;
            background-color: #ffb08a;
        }
        .middle {
            margin-left: 20px;
            padding: 20px;
            border: 10px solid #000000;
            background-color: #ceb379;
        }
        .inner {
            height: 10px;
            border: 1px solid #ffffff;
            background-color: #ffffff;
        }
    </style>
</head>
<body>
    <table cellpadding="0px" cellspacing="10px">
        <tr>
            <td style="background-color: #ffb08a;">&nbsp;</td>
            <td>margin</td>
            <td style="background-color: #000000;">&nbsp;</td>
            <td>border</td>
            <td style="background-color: #ceb379;">&nbsp;</td>
            <td>padding</td>
        </tr>
    </table>
    
    <div class="outer">
        <div class="middle">
            <div class="inner"></div>
        </div>
    </div>
</body>

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Example HTML code 2:

This example illustrates the use of the marginLeft property in JavaScript:

<head>
    <style>
        .outer {
            border: 1px solid #ffffff;
            background-color: #ffb08a;
        }
        .middle {
            margin-left: 20px;
            padding: 20px;
            border: 10px solid #000000;
            background-color: #ceb379;
        }
        .inner {
            height: 10px;
            border: 1px solid #ffffff;
            background-color: #ffffff;
        }
    </style>
    <script type="text/javascript">
        function ChangeMarginLeft () {
            var middleDiv = document.getElementById ("middleDiv");
            var marginInput = document.getElementById ("marginInput");

            middleDiv.style.marginLeft = marginInput.value + "px";
        }
    </script>
</head>
<body>
    <table cellpadding="0px" cellspacing="10px">
        <tr>
            <td style="background-color: #ffb08a;">&nbsp;</td>
            <td>margin</td>
            <td style="background-color: #000000;">&nbsp;</td>
            <td>border</td>
            <td style="background-color: #ceb379;">&nbsp;</td>
            <td>padding</td>
        </tr>
    </table>
    <div class="outer">
        <div id="middleDiv" class="middle">
            <div class="inner"></div>
        </div>
    </div>
    <br />
    marginLeft: 
    <input id="marginInput" type="text" value="10" size="2" /> 
    <button onclick="ChangeMarginLeft ();">Change</button>
</body>