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christian lian huat toh
7,213 Pointsblock level elements
Why some block level elements by default doesn't have a default margin like <article></article>, <aside></aside>, <div></div> and etc.
while there are some that have a default margin like <p></p> and <h1></h1> tags. whyy ?? :'(
1 Answer
Jonathan Grieve
Treehouse Moderator 91,252 PointsA lot of this depends on the defaut margins that the user agent i.e. the browser has applied. But you can easily control this with CSS.
You can use your browsers development tools to see exactly how much margin and padding has been applied to each element on your page. If you use Google chrome you can access Chrome DevTools with Ctrl/CMD + j
To make sure that you have a level playing field throughout your project you can apply a CSS reset style to your project. Doing this will give you peace of mind as to how margins and padding are applied to your elements by default.
christian lian huat toh
7,213 Pointschristian lian huat toh
7,213 PointsThank you very much sir! :) I was really curious about why block level elements had different margins, but now i know that it depends upon the user agent :)