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CSS

Posted by Alcibiades Montas
Alcibiades Montas
5,974 Points

Issues with margins on my divs

Hey guys,

I am building a portfolio page where I have static navigation on the left side and various information containers along the right side. However the containers that have information are displaying with spaces in between. See the link below:

http://almontas.github.io/Portfolio/

I am building this site from scratch to make it look something like this:

http://html5up.net/prologue

Any help will be appreciated!

3 Answers

Vlatko .
Vlatko .
2,526 Points

1) How were you able to trouble-shoot?

I used a Firefox add-on called Firebug to check the code and edit it live. You can also use Firefox's or Chrome's built-in developer tools. There's probably a section somewhere here that teaches you how to use them.

2) Now I have spacing between the sections of the #main div and the #body of the div as well as the footer? Any suggestions?

You have padding in your #main div that's affecting the spacing on the top and bottom of that div. Try changing your code to look like this:

#main {
    padding: 0;
}
Vlatko .
Vlatko .
2,526 Points
Vlatko .
Vlatko .
2,526 Points

Your h2 tags have margin that is causing the spaces between the posts. If you remove their margin and replace it with padding, you won't have the spacing issue anymore.

Your new h2 code would look something like this:

h2 {
    font-size: 2em;
    letter-spacing: -1px;
    margin: 0; /*margin is removed, spacing between sections goes away*/
    padding: 20px; /*padding is added to create spacing between h2 and other content*/
}
Alcibiades Montas
Alcibiades Montas
5,974 Points
Alcibiades Montas
Alcibiades Montas
5,974 Points

Vlatko Mojsoski thank you that did most of the trip...a couple of questions:

1) How were you able to trouble-shoot?

2) Now I have spacing between the sections of the #main div and the #body of the div as well as the footer? Any suggestions?

Thanks,

AM.