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CSS

Posted by Kevin Silvestre
Kevin Silvestre
13,561 Points

How to eliminate white space?

Hi, everyone. I am new here. I already had knowledge of HTML/CSS before I came here; However, I have learned a lot here. HTML I know it inside out and I am trying to do the same with CSS. I am following the deep dive on CSS, and I am trying to eliminate the white space that the browser generates for default between the head div of my page and the top of the browser. How can I achieve it?

2 Answers

Wilco Dohmen
Wilco Dohmen
4,748 Points
Wilco Dohmen
Wilco Dohmen
4,748 Points

Not knowing what you code looks like, most likely you only need to remove the top margin from your div, or remove all the margins from the body.

Kevin Silvestre
Kevin Silvestre
13,561 Points

That was the first thing I did. But I already solve the problem by applying the following code to my CSS.

*{ margin:0; padding:0;

}

Kevin Korte
Kevin Korte
28,148 Points
Kevin Korte
Kevin Korte
28,148 Points

I would recommend for every project, the first thing you do is add normalize.css. You can download it here: http://necolas.github.io/normalize.css/

Ben Dickie
Ben Dickie
1,559 Points
Ben Dickie
Ben Dickie
1,559 Points

Hi Kevin

Also if you developing a website (not so much the deep dive) a lot of people use a css reset loaded before the general styling, something like http://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/meyer-reset/ and this should address that margin/padding problem also.