Hi everyone! Is there a way to do negative margins...
# advancedpdfk
Kris Wood
09/20/2018, 6:36 PMHi everyone! Is there a way to do negative margins? I'm trying to get a body table to shift upward so that it overlaps the bottom .25in of the header.
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Wolf
09/20/2018, 6:37 PMI assume you've tried setting
margin-top="-0.25in"Wolf
09/20/2018, 6:38 PMIf that doesn't work, you might also be able to set it to an absolute position.
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Wolf
09/20/2018, 6:38 PMBut is there a reason you can't just make the header shorter?
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Kris Wood
09/20/2018, 6:39 PMThe header is already as short as it can be and hold all the info it needs in the layout they want.
Kris Wood
09/20/2018, 6:40 PMYes I tried margin-top with a negative value and it broke the table altogether so that it displayed oddly. Not sure how to explain that.
Kris Wood
09/20/2018, 6:45 PMYes, absolute position worked, thank you!!!
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Wolf
09/20/2018, 7:25 PMExcellent! Yah, I've noticed that BFO can get confused by any layout that's a bit out of the ordinary. In my (admittedly limited) experience anything unusual is best done with absolute position if possible.
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