Did you paste it in exactly as you show below? If so, your sample would not have worked as you had some odd characters in the rule set. Try this (whitespace and line breaks are up to the individual as they are ignored anyway):
* { padding:0; margin:0; } It might be worthwhile reading some basic info about rule sets to get you started: http://css.maxdesign.com.au/selectutorial/rule.htm The * in this case is the universal selector: http://css.maxdesign.com.au/selectutorial/selectors_universal.htm HTH Russ > 1. |* {| > 2. | padding:0;| > 3. | margin:0;| > 4. |}| ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************