Dreamweaver css help

[theendisgone]

Hi, im trying to add a 5 px space to each side of my text (left and right) in dreamweaver. but its just not happning it even crosses out my css in my "css toolbar" any chance anyone could point me in the right direction ? thanks

[Lchad]

It's crossing it out because you are trying to apply the css to things that are inappropriate.
Send the code for the area that you want to add margins to and we'll see if we can't sort it out for you ok.

[ScottR]

Try
padding: 0px 5px 0px 5px;

[Ryan Fait]

Originally Posted by ScottR

Try
padding: 0px 5px 0px 5px;

padding: 0 5px; would be shorter, but it shouldn't fix the problem here. I believe he is trying to add properties to something that shouldn't have any.

[ScottR]

Whoops, I thought he had said it was wrapped in a div or I assumed that it was.