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Why can’t I do style=“padding: 20px” and a border in the same div?

11th November 2013

My answer to Why can’t I do style=“padding: 20px” and a border in the same div? on Quora

You can’t have two style attributes on the same element—but you can have two styles rules inside the same attribute. Try this instead:

<div id="secondcontent" style="padding:20px; border:solid">