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CSS How to Make a Website Styling Web Pages and Navigation Build Navigation with Unordered Lists

Posted by Sohum Sanghvi
Sohum Sanghvi
2,995 Points

White 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
Jason Anello
Courses Plus Student 94,610 Points

Hi 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%;
}
Sohum Sanghvi
Sohum Sanghvi
2,995 Points

Thank you Jason,

This solved my problem. It makes sense to me now.

Thanks again! :D

David Jarrin
PLUS
David Jarrin
Courses Plus Student 11,182 Points
David Jarrin
David Jarrin
Courses Plus Student 11,182 Points

within 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
Jason Anello
Courses Plus Student 94,610 Points

normalize.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
David Jarrin
Courses Plus Student 11,182 Points
David Jarrin
David Jarrin
Courses Plus Student 11,182 Points

ya I just built my stuff from scratch, guess it would be helpful to have a normalize css as well.