I've just learning HTML/CSS for a few days and I'm having trouble with this: Why there is a blank line at the top of the page? Can someone tell me what was wrong or missing from my code? How can I fix it?
Here's my code:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<title>Document</title>
<style>
body {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}
header {
text-align: center;
background-color: lightgray;
}
header h1 {
font-size: 70px;
}
ul {
background-color: gray;
padding: 10px;
}
li {
display: inline;
margin: 0 5px 0 5px;
}
a {
color: white;
text-decoration: none;
text-transform: uppercase;
font-size: 18px;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<header>
<h1>My Website</h1>
<p>A sample website</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="#">HOMEPAGE</a></li>
<li><a href="#">ABOUT ME</a></li>
<li><a href="#">CONTACT</a></li>
</ul>
</header>
</body>
</html>
Thanks in advance!
The above blank line is caused by the browsers default css style.
Use normalize.css to reset the CSS applied by all the browser to a common one. So that you have level playgroud to apply styles.
https://github.com/necolas/normalize.css/
This occurs because of parent and first child
margin collapsing
between theh1
and the margin of its parent element(s)One solution would be to add
border: 1px solid lightgray
or addpadding
, or you can reset themargin
itself to zero - see demo below:It's because your
h1
has margins. To solve the issue, you need to reseth1
'smargin-top
like this:And here is the working snippet:
To solve this issue you can add
margin-top:-45px;
in header class.It is margin of tag h1 make it zero in css.