Remembering the order of the CSS margin property

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You give the style margins in the following order: top, right, bottom, left.

But I kept having trouble remembering this and had to keep looking it up. Until I thought of Charles Barkley. The order is what Charles would tell Kenny Smith about how the Warriors played against the Spurs:

"The Warriors played trbl, tonight, Kenny, just trbl."

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  1. Adam Bradley1:26 PM

    I always remember it as clockwise-from-top.

    What I always forget is what order padding, borders, and margin are in. I always have to use trial-and-error to figure out whether it's margin or padding that's inside the border.

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  2. cloneof3:00 PM

    Hmm... I never really had a problem remembering that as it was logically clockwise.

    Is this a persistent problem?

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  3. scineram12:03 AM

    Also known as: clockwise.

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    1. gcallah3:10 PM

      Yes, well, I don't often think of a paragraph of text as a clock.

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  4. Samson Corwell2:48 AM

    Does the order really matter? What happens if it isn't in order?

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    1. gcallah5:35 PM

      You will set a different margin than you meant to set!

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