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Tom Hill
Tom Hill
14,232 Points
Posted by Tom Hill
Tom Hill
14,232 Points

White strip at the top of the page

Hi, I have a div element that I have styled so it is the size of the screen height and width with this code:

body, html {
    height: 100%;
    width: 100%;
    padding: 0;
    margin: 0;
}

div {
    height: 100%;
    width: 100%;
    background-color:#123456;
}

But there is a white strip at the top of the page spanning the entire length. Does anyone know what this is and how to get rid of it?? Thanks - Tom

3 Answers

James Barnett
James Barnett
39,199 Points
James Barnett
James Barnett
39,199 Points

The easiest solution is to use 

h1 { margin: 0; }
James Barnett
James Barnett
39,199 Points
James Barnett
James Barnett
39,199 Points

That sounds like a user-agent style sheet is adding some margin. Although it doesn't seem like it should.

I just tried it out with this code and the color took up the entire page.

<!doctype html>
<html>
<head>
<style>

    body, html {
        height: 100%;
        width: 100%;
        padding: 0;
        margin: 0;
    }

    div {
        height: 100%;
        width: 100%;
        background-color:#123456;
    }

</style>
<body>

    <div></div>

</body>
</html>
Tom Hill
Tom Hill
14,232 Points
Tom Hill
Tom Hill
14,232 Points

Thanks James, I just tried your code and it worked fine, I don't know what went wrong - The only thing different before was it was in an external css file that I linked to instead of inside the style tags. Thanks so much - Tom

Tom Hill
Tom Hill
14,232 Points
Tom Hill
Tom Hill
14,232 Points

Oh wait! - Hang on, I forgot to mention there was h1 text inside the tag and when I put it back in, the white strip reappeared!!

Here's a code pen of my exact code: http://cdpn.io/okzji

And here it is in full:

<!doctype html>
<html>
<head>
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css" type="text/css" />
</head>
<body>

    <div>
        <h1>Hello World!</h1>
    </div>

</body>
</html>

    body, html {
        height: 100%;
        width: 100%;
        padding: 0;
        margin: 0;
    }

    div {
        height: 100%;
        width: 100%;
        background-color:#123456;
    }

Is it just something to do with using text inside a div?

Thanks, Tom

Tom Hill
Tom Hill
14,232 Points
Tom Hill
Tom Hill
14,232 Points

Great, Thank you