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Sohum Sanghvi
2,995 PointsWhite Space at Top of Page
I can not seem to get rid of the white space at the top of the page, even though I followed the instructions in the video. Here is all of my CSS code. Please let me know where I went wrong. (I also completed the next video, so there is some additional code in the footer)
Thank you.
/**************** GENERAL ****************/
body { font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; }
wrapper {
max-width: 940px; margin: 0 auto; padding: 0 5%; }
a { text-decoration: none; }
img { max-width: 100%; }
/**************** HEADING ****************/
header { float: left; margin: 0 0 30px 0; padding: 5px 0 0 0; width: 100%; }
logo {
text-align: center; margin: 0; }
h1 { font-family: 'Changa One', sans-serif; margin: 15px 0; font-size: 1.75em; font-weight: normal; line-height: 0.8em; }
h2 { font-size: 0.75em; margin: -5px 0 0 0; font-weight: normal; }
/**************** NAVIGATION ****************/
nav { text-align: center; padding: 10px 0; margin: 20px 0 0; }
nav ul { list-style: none; margin: 0 10px; padding: 0; }
nav li { display: inline-block; }
nav a { font-weight: 800; padding: 15px 10px; }
/******************* FOOTER ********************/
footer { font-size: 0.75em; text-align: center; clear: both; padding-top: 50px; color: #ccc; }
.social-icon { width: 20px; height: 20px; margin: 0 5px; }
/**************** PAGE PORTFOLIO ****************/
gallery {
margin: 0; padding: 0; list-style: none; }
gallery li {
float: left; width: 45%; margin: 2.5%; background-color: #f5f5f5; color: #bdc3c7; }
gallery li a p {
margin: 0; padding: 5%; font-size: 0.75em; color: #bdc3c7; } /**************** COLORS ****************/
/* site body */ body { background-color: #fff; color: #999; }
/* green header */ header { background: #6ab47b; border-color: #599a68; }
/* nav background on mobile */ nav { background-color: #599a68; }
/* logo text */ h1, h2 { color: #fff; }
/* links */ a { color: #6ab47b; }
/* nav link */ nav a, nav a:visited { color: #fff; }
/* selected nav link */ nav a.selected, nav a:hover { color: #32673f; }
2 Answers
Jason Anello
Courses Plus Student 94,610 PointsHi Sohum,
I'm not seeing anything wrong right now with your css.
Did you possibly add a heading element or paragraph above the gallery? Is the gallery the first thing that you have in your section element?
One thing that you can try which should be done anyways even if it doesn't fix the problem is to have your wrapper div clear the floated header since that's the first element that comes after the header. This forces the content box for the wrapper down below the header.
#wrapper {
clear:both; /* Add this */
max-width: 940px;
margin: 0 auto;
padding: 0 5%;
}
David Jarrin
Courses Plus Student 11,182 Pointswithin in the body set margin to zero
body {
margin: 0;
}
I don't know if this is the white space you are speaking of?
Jason Anello
Courses Plus Student 94,610 Pointsnormalize.css already has this in it. If this solution works for you then it could mean that you don't have normalize.css properly linked to your html page.
David Jarrin
Courses Plus Student 11,182 Pointsya I just built my stuff from scratch, guess it would be helpful to have a normalize css as well.
Sohum Sanghvi
2,995 PointsSohum Sanghvi
2,995 PointsThank you Jason,
This solved my problem. It makes sense to me now.
Thanks again! :D