CSS Negative margins for positioning.

Posted by Kyle Sevenoaks on Stack Overflow See other posts from Stack Overflow or by Kyle Sevenoaks
Published on 2010-04-13T13:12:42Z Indexed on 2010/04/13 13:22 UTC
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Is it ok to use negative margins for positioning? I have a lot in my current site and feel like it's not such a stable way to position things. I usually suggest to use them too.

For example I have a checkout page with three divs on top of each other

<div class="A">
   header
</div>
<div class="B">
   content
</div>
<div class="C">
   footer
</div>

(A, B and C), which are meant to sit on top of each other, to appear attached. I did this using:

.B
{
    margin-top: -20px;
}

On div B, to meet the bottom of div A.

Is this good practice or shall I re-code using top and left?

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