freeCodeCamp/curriculum/challenges/english/01-responsive-web-design/basic-css/add-different-margins-to-each-side-of-an-element.md

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id: bad87fee1248bd9aedf08824
title: Add Different Margins to Each Side of an Element
challengeType: 0
videoUrl: 'https://scrimba.com/c/cg4RWh4'
forumTopicId: 16633
dashedName: add-different-margins-to-each-side-of-an-element
---

# --description--

Sometimes you will want to customize an element so that it has a different `margin` on each of its sides.

CSS allows you to control the `margin` of all four individual sides of an element with the `margin-top`, `margin-right`, `margin-bottom`, and `margin-left` properties.

# --instructions--

Give the blue box a `margin` of `40px` on its top and left side, but only `20px` on its bottom and right side.

# --hints--

Your `blue-box` class should give the top of elements `40px` of `margin`.

```js
assert($('.blue-box').css('margin-top') === '40px');
```

Your `blue-box` class should give the right of elements `20px` of `margin`.

```js
assert($('.blue-box').css('margin-right') === '20px');
```

Your `blue-box` class should give the bottom of elements `20px` of `margin`.

```js
assert($('.blue-box').css('margin-bottom') === '20px');
```

Your `blue-box` class should give the left of elements `40px` of `margin`.

```js
assert($('.blue-box').css('margin-left') === '40px');
```

# --seed--

## --seed-contents--

```html
<style>
  .injected-text {
    margin-bottom: -25px;
    text-align: center;
  }

  .box {
    border-style: solid;
    border-color: black;
    border-width: 5px;
    text-align: center;
  }

  .yellow-box {
    background-color: yellow;
    padding: 10px;
  }

  .red-box {
    background-color: crimson;
    color: #fff;
    margin-top: 40px;
    margin-right: 20px;
    margin-bottom: 20px;
    margin-left: 40px;
  }

  .blue-box {
    background-color: blue;
    color: #fff;
  }
</style>
<h5 class="injected-text">margin</h5>

<div class="box yellow-box">
  <h5 class="box red-box">padding</h5>
  <h5 class="box blue-box">padding</h5>
</div>
```

# --solutions--

```html
<style>
  .injected-text {
    margin-bottom: -25px;
    text-align: center;
  }

  .box {
    border-style: solid;
    border-color: black;
    border-width: 5px;
    text-align: center;
  }

  .yellow-box {
    background-color: yellow;
    padding: 10px;
  }

  .red-box {
    background-color: crimson;
    color: #fff;
    margin-top: 40px;
    margin-right: 20px;
    margin-bottom: 20px;
    margin-left: 40px;
  }

  .blue-box {
    background-color: blue;
    color: #fff;
    margin-top: 40px;
    margin-right: 20px;
    margin-bottom: 20px;
    margin-left: 40px;
  }
</style>
<h5 class="injected-text">margin</h5>

<div class="box yellow-box">
  <h5 class="box red-box">padding</h5>
  <h5 class="box blue-box">padding</h5>
</div>
```