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CSS

Posted by Christopher Anderson
Christopher Anderson
1,601 Points

every time i separate the iframe from the header using margin-top:, the header padding expands,

every time I separate the iframe from the header using margin-top:, the header padding expands, it makes the website ugly

here's my code:

https://w.trhou.se/ppru2xt25k

1 Answer

Seth Kroger
Seth Kroger
56,416 Points
Seth Kroger
Seth Kroger
56,416 Points

This is probably a good time to hit F12 on Chrome or Firefox to see what the margins/padding are and where they are coming from.

I see that normalize.css is putting wide margins on some of your elements, like the ul and h6 in your header. Because they are nested inside one another the margins are compounding into a ton of space. You probably want to override those in your main.css to more reasonable values.

Christopher Anderson
Christopher Anderson
1,601 Points

And how would I do that