I'm not getting why it's going downward! How the content in the content area of the "h1 element" act when the margin completely swallow the content area?

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<html>
<head>
    <title>content behavior</title>

    <style>

        .h1_wrapper {
            background: orange;
            position: relative;
            height: 5em;
            width: 45em;
            margin-top: 1em;
            border: 2px solid;
        }
        
        .h1_wrapper h1 {
            background: green;
            position: absolute;
            top: 1em;
            right: 25%;
            bottom: 10px;
            left: 1em;
            background-clip: content-box;
        }
        
        #marginless {
            margin: 0;
        }
    
</style>

</head>

<body>

    <div class="h1_wrapper">
        <h1 id="marginless">Hey I'm a header inside a div tag.</h1>
    </div>

</body>
</html>

What I have tried:

<html>
<head>
    <title>content behavior</title>

    <style>

        .h1_wrapper {
            background: orange;
            position: relative;
            height: 5em;
            width: 45em;
            margin-top: 1em;
            border: 2px solid;
        }
        
        .h1_wrapper h1 {
            background: green;
            position: absolute;
            top: 1em;
            right: 25%;
            bottom: 10px;
            left: 1em;
            background-clip: content-box;
        }
        
        #marginless {
            margin: 25px;
        }

    </style>

</head>

<body>

    <div class="h1_wrapper">
        <h1 id="marginless">Hey I'm a header inside a div tag.</h1>
    </div>

</body>
</html>

Posted 31-Aug-17 23:00pm

AzuraLight

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Richard MacCutchan 1-Sep-17 5:18am

Please edit your question and add a proper explanation of your problem.

AzuraLight 1-Sep-17 13:38pm

Thank you, Sir, for looking into my question! I just wanted to know why the margins when they totally wrap the content area in this example and nothing is left of it. The content itself "Hey I'm a header inside a div tag," go down? I'm just not getting the reason, for example, why not go up instead? (Knowing that the more margin I add, the more "Hey I'm a header inside a div tag," will get down).

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Chubby Ninja · Answer 1 · 2017-09-01T00:05:00

Are you trying to align it in the middle?

You're using

CSS

top:1em;

that is why it is going so far down.

You could do something like this:

CSS

.h1_wrapper {
  background: orange;
  padding:1em;
  width: 45em;
  margin-top: 1em;
  border: 2px solid;
  box-sizing:border-box;
}
        
.h1_wrapper h1 {
  background: green;
  margin: 0;
  display:inline-block;
  padding:0.25em;
}

Or

CSS

.h1_wrapper {
  background: orange;
  padding:1em;
  width: 45em;
  margin-top: 1em;
  border: 2px solid;
  box-sizing:border-box;
}
        
.h1_wrapper h1 {
  background: green;
  margin: 0;
}