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CSS

Posted by Ashley Shay
Ashley Shay
8,664 Points

Mystery Padding/Margin?

I have a sub-nav UL of labels that appears to have some sort of mystery padding or margin to it. It's pushed to the left by about 10px. If I add padding: 0 to the .labels class, it aligns correctly on the left... but then the content next to it appears to cave in on it (by about 10px) from the right. I can add 10px of right padding to the .labels class to "fix" it all... but there must be something I've done wrong/missed that is causing it in the first place.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

.label a {
    color: #ffefbf;
    padding: 5px 10px;
    background-color: #663F61;
}

.label li:not(:last-child) {
    margin-right: 10px;
}

.label li {
    display: inline-block;
    list-style: none;
}

I did try commenting out my not-last-child margin rule to see if that corrected it, but it did not. :(

2 Answers

Gary Mann
Gary Mann
8,639 Points
Gary Mann
Gary Mann
8,639 Points

Hi Ashley,

Can you put it into a codepen for us?

Ashley Shay
Ashley Shay
8,664 Points
Ashley Shay
Ashley Shay
8,664 Points

Hi Gary!

I actually just realized that it wasn't an issue with the UL, it was something to do with how I had my divs aligned with their grid classes. Once I corrected that, simply setting the padding to 0 did solve the issue without any other weird changes. :)

Thanks for responding, anyway!