Is it ok to use Minuses?

[glenwheeler]

Hi Guys,

I am just thinking about CSS and when I was at University I was told it was wrong to use minuses when using CSS for example using;

.img_positon {
margin-left:-10px;
}

Should Minuses be used?

 

[Harry]

Yes. Just look at my site and the outdented stuff. Negative margins are invaluable--whoever told you that at uni needs a slapping.

 

[chrismitchell]

negative margins are ok by me.. otherwise its too difficult to make everything perfect (especially in IE7 ) at least thats how i've used negative margins

 

[glenwheeler]

Yes. Just look at my site and the outdented stuff. Negative margins are invaluable--whoever told you that at uni needs a slapping.

Thats University for you mate...Ive always used negatives to shunt stuff off page etc thanks for the clarification guys!

 

[Dave1975]

Another common use of negatives in CSS is in letter-spacing to tighten the tracking/kerning

 

[Aarlev]

Negative margins are valid CSS so that teacher was talking through his/her *ss . I always use it to get things to play nice in IE6 and just for making stuff outdented.

There's a post on Smashing Mag here about negative margins: http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/07/27/the-definitive-guide-to-using-negative-margins/

You should send that to your uni teacher.

 

[Jazajay]

Another reason why I'm glad I didn't go to uni.

PCPro did a review and according to them most computer grads aren't even tought basic security that would give any half decent hacker a run for is money, no wonder 10,000 sites get hacked a week.