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11,191 PointsWhy is there a gap?
I already set margin of header to be "0 auto", but there is still a white line of space between header and section. How come?
Thanks!
This is the code.
header{ text-align:center; background:blue; margin: 0 auto; }
h1,h2{ color:black; }
nav a{ color:#fff; }
section{ background:orange; }
3 Answers
Jonathan Grieve
Treehouse Moderator 91,253 PointsI got rid of my margins on my website by putting a margin on the universal selector. Failing that, You might be able to sneakily hide it by applying a matching background colour as a temp fix but that depends on your design really,
Jeremy Germenis
29,854 PointsExtra spacing between elements can be caused by a few things such as line breaks in your markup and margin/padding.
Yaxin Yuan
11,191 Pointsk solved it
we need:
ul,p{ margin:0; }
Adam Sackfield
Courses Plus Student 19,663 PointsAdam Sackfield
Courses Plus Student 19,663 PointsWould need to see the code to find out why. Could you add the code to codepen.io and paste the link in here?