Bottom of previous element to border-top

margin-top

The white space between the previous element's bottom and this element's top border, which is not filled with the background color.

Property values

Note that in many cases an element's margin-top is compared to the previous element's margin-bottom, and the larger of the two is kept as white-space (not the sum of the two). This is referred to as margin collapsing.

Use any of these font-relative typographic units to set the margin's height:

em em The font-size of the current font
rem relative em The font-size of the <html> element
lh line height The line-height of the current font
rlh relative line height The line-height of the <html> element
cap cap height The nominal height of the current font's capital letters
ex "x" The height of the current font's "x" glyph
ch "0" The advance measure (the width) of the current font's "0" glyph
ic ideograph count The advance measure (the width) of the current font's "水" ideograph

Or use any of these fixed size units which are independent of the current font:

in inch A size equal 96px
px pixels A size equal to 1/96 inch
pt point A size equal 1in/72 = 1.33px
pc pica A size equal 1in/6 = 12pt = 16px
cm centimeter A size equal to 96px/2.54 = 37.8px
mm millimeter A size equal to 96px/25.4 = 3.8px
Q quarter millimeter A size equal to 96px/1016 = 0.94px

Examples

margin-top: 1rem;
margin-top
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style > whitespace > margin-topBottom of previous element to border-top

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