Remove space between inline-block elements in Reac

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What I am trying is to specifically do this in react, if this was html this would be as easy as doing something like (div being inline-block):

<div>something</div><
div>something2</div>

That would result in no white space between the divs, cool, but I can't do that in React as React uses JSX instead of HTML.

I've read different solutions for doing this with CSS, some of them are:

• Setting a margin-left with a negative value (this probably will break when resizing the browser window (it won't be responsive basically)

• Setting the parent container font-size to 0 (I've read this is buggy in some platforms)

• Floating the parent container to the left (I need the use of text-align and floating just messes everything up).

So the only thing would be to use flexbox, but I wonder if there's any other way of removing those white spaces (if not, I will use flexbox/table).

Answer 1

React specifically doesn't add whitespace between block elements, you need to do that yourself manually. See this discussion on Github and an official blog post explaining the details.

Here is a simple example:

class SimpleExample extends React.Component {
	render() {
		return (
			<div>
        <div>NO</div>
        <div>SPACES</div>
        HERE
			</div>
		);
	}
}

ReactDOM.render(<SimpleExample />, document.getElementById('example'));

div {
  display:inline-block;
}

<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/react/16.6.3/umd/react.production.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/react-dom/16.6.3/umd/react-dom.production.min.js"></script>
<div id="example"></div>