I'm a new comer to web designing. I created my web page layout using CSS and HTML as below. The problem is even though i set the margin to 0, the upper margin is not setting to 0 and leaves some space. How can i clear this white space?
Screen Shot of the problem
Style Sheet
<style type="text/css">
body{
margin:0 auto;
background:#F0F0F0;}
#header{
background-color:#009ACD;
height:120px;}
#header_content {
width:70%;
background-color:#00B2EE;
height:120px;
margin:0 auto;
text-align:center;}
#content{
width:68%;
background-color:#EBEBEB;
margin:0 auto;
padding:20px;}
</style>
HTML
<body>
<div id="header">
<div id="header_content">
<p>header_content</p>
</div>
</div>
<div id="content">
Main Content
</div>
</body>
Here's the whole file
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Book Shop</title>
<style type="text/css">
html, body, #header {
margin: 0 !important;
padding: 0 !important;
}
body{
margin:0; padding: 0;
background:#F0F0F0;}
#header{
background-color:#009ACD;
height:120px;}
#header_content {
width:70%;
background-color:#00B2EE;
height:120px;
margin:0 auto;
text-align:center;}
#content{
width:68%;
background-color:#EBEBEB;
margin:0 auto;
padding:20px;}
body {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="header">
<div id="header_content">
<p>header_content</p>
</div>
</div>
<div id="content">
Main Content
</div>
</body>
</html>
You need to set the actual page to margin:0 and padding: 0 to the actual html, not just the body.
use this in your css stylesheet.
that will set the whole page to 0, for a fresh clean start with no margin or paddings.
It seems that nobody actually read your question and looked at your source code. Here's the answer you all have been waiting for:
jsFiddle
you should have either (or both):
try
The
margin
is the "space" outside the box, thepadding
is the "space" inside the box (between the border and the content). The!important
prevent overriding of property by latter rules.Try...
jsFiddle.
Because of browsers using different default stylesheets, some people recommend a reset stylesheet such as Eric Meyer's Reset Reloaded.
It' s just a misunderstanding with h1 tag. You have to set h1 tag margin-top and padding-top to 0 (zero).
add this code to the starting of the main CSS.