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CSS

Problems with positioning

Hi,

I have the same code and styling for the header on all the pages but ther is a Gap on my contacts page and i cannot figure out why.

https://w.trhou.se/t5hnzkia8k

Any help will be mucg appreciated.

3 Answers

Jonathan Grieve
MOD
Jonathan Grieve
Treehouse Moderator 91,254 Points

It's probably something to do with problems with padding and margin interfering with the top of the page. That is overflowing so it causes a gap.

I can't get into specifics about why it is happening but I can tell you how to fix it.

If you change your margin property in the H3 style to

margin:0;

The gap will disappear. In fact it's a noramlize style that's doing it. So in your main.css file add this

h3 {
 margin: 0;
display: block;
}

Hey Jacek, first in the CSS, header {float:left;...} when I turn off that property in Firebug the top space goes away.

Second, in the HTML, <header> the <a> wraps around both <h> elements and this is invalid HTML because inline elements <a>'s cannot wrap around block elements <hx>'s. This invalid HTML seems to affect the <h3> below but I can't explain why.

Thanks for your replies, changing the margin on the h3 element helped.