# Add Different Margins to Each Side of an Element is not working why?

**URL:** <https://forum.freecodecamp.org/t/add-different-margins-to-each-side-of-an-element-is-not-working-why/173502>\
**Category:** General\
**Created:** [February 8, 2018, 2:10pm UTC](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/t/add-different-margins-to-each-side-of-an-element-is-not-working-why/173502 "2018-02-08T14:10:25Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![binAli](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/freecodecamp/user_avatar/forum.freecodecamp.org/binali/32/80113_2.png) [@binAli](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/u/binAli)\
**Post date:** [February 8, 2018, 2:10pm UTC](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/t/add-different-margins-to-each-side-of-an-element-is-not-working-why/173502/1 "2018-02-08T14:10:25Z")

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**Tell us what’s happening:**

**Your code so far**

```auto
<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: red;
  margin-top:40px;
  margin-left:40px;
   margin-right:20px;
    margin-bottom:20px
    
  }

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

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

```

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**Link to the challenge:**  
[https://www.freecodecamp.org/challenges/add-different-margins-to-each-side-of-an-element](https://www.freecodecamp.org/challenges/add-different-margins-to-each-side-of-an-element)

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**Author:** ![binAli](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/freecodecamp/user_avatar/forum.freecodecamp.org/binali/32/80113_2.png) [@binAli](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/u/binAli)\
**Post date:** [February 8, 2018, 2:12pm UTC](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/t/add-different-margins-to-each-side-of-an-element-is-not-working-why/173502/2 "2018-02-08T14:12:56Z")

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> [@binAli](#):
>
> margin-top:40px  
> margin-left:40px  
> margin-right:20px  
> margin-bottom:20px

-----these changed i made to the green box are not effective!please help

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**Author:** ![sonimadhuri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/freecodecamp/user_avatar/forum.freecodecamp.org/sonimadhuri/32/66596_2.png) [@sonimadhuri](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/u/sonimadhuri)\
**Post date:** [February 8, 2018, 3:30pm UTC](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/t/add-different-margins-to-each-side-of-an-element-is-not-working-why/173502/3 "2018-02-08T15:30:36Z")

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When you have multiple key-value pair each pair must end with a semicolon.Check for semicolons in `.green-class`.  
Also note that the syntax highlighter shows up differently when the syntax is wrong giving you a clue of syntax errors

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**Author:** ![ILM](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/freecodecamp/user_avatar/forum.freecodecamp.org/ilm/32/363239_2.png) [@ILM](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/u/ILM)\
**Post date:** [January 17, 2021, 8:27pm UTC](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/t/add-different-margins-to-each-side-of-an-element-is-not-working-why/173502/4 "2021-01-17T20:27:40Z")

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