I have a background image in a cell of a table but the text is going over to of the edges of the graphic, I tried setting a margin but it only set it for the first line on the left side. I need to keep both the right and left side 8 pixels away from the edge, top and bottom don't matter the graphics only show on the side. Any help would be great.

thanks

It sounds like you need to set padding within the cell itself, something like this:

<td style="padding-left:8px">

This may not be the best way to apply the style - perhaps an external stylesheet would make more sense - but it should do what you're asking.

oh i forgot to mention I had setup a stylesheet for the text that will be inside these boxes

Hmm, did you try margin-left:8px on the container holding the text within the box? How did you try to apply that margin?

yeah I tried that and all that happened was the first word was indented to the proper width. It didn't format everything over the 8px I needed....

Can you share your markup? A link would work best so it can be seen in action. You're describing something like p:first-line { margin-left:8px }, but you'd know if you'd done something like this...

i decided to do something different with the text, just one of those days I am hating everything I design today :(

thanks for the help though