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Relative units giving rise to unequal side margins

  

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
        "http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/REC-xhtml1-20000126/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
  <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
  <title>Relative units giving rise to unequal side margins</title>
  <style type="text/css">
    p { 
      font-size: 1em;
      margin: 0 0 0 2em;
    }
    h1 { 
      font-size: 1.5em;
      margin: 0 0 0 2em;
    }    
  </style>
</head>
<body>
  <div>
    <h1>A heading</h1>
    <p>Some body text</p>
  </div>
</body>
</html>








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