title: Padding the top and the bottom of inline element
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  <p>Quote from Head first html:</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>You can add padding to the top and bottom of inline element, but the padding doesn’t affect the spacing of the other inline elements around it, so the padding will overlap other inline elements</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>a) As far as I understand the above quote, adding padding to the top and bottom of inline element doesn’t ( ever ) have any effects on surrounding elements and thus on the look of the page?! </p>
  
  <p>b) But what exactly is meant by “<em>padding will overlap other inline elements</em>”? Does it perhaps suggest that in certain circumstances padding ( top and bottom of an inline element ) will have effect on the look of the page?!</p>
  
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  <p>thanx</p>