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CSS

Posted by Yaxin Yuan
Yaxin Yuan
11,191 Points

Why 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; }

Adam Sackfield
Adam Sackfield
Courses Plus Student 19,663 Points

Would need to see the code to find out why. Could you add the code to codepen.io and paste the link in here?

3 Answers

Jonathan Grieve
MOD
Jonathan Grieve
Treehouse Moderator 91,252 Points
Jonathan Grieve
Jonathan Grieve
Treehouse Moderator 91,252 Points

I 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
Jeremy Germenis
29,854 Points
Jeremy Germenis
Jeremy Germenis
29,854 Points

Extra spacing between elements can be caused by a few things such as line breaks in your markup and margin/padding.

Yaxin Yuan
Yaxin Yuan
11,191 Points
Yaxin Yuan
Yaxin Yuan
11,191 Points

k solved it

we need:

ul,p{ margin:0; }