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POOdd margin on my divs, How do I solve this?
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    copied!<p>Here is the code i'm working on it's not a page it's a treasure hunt for what might be re-used in a page, I ran into this problem last week or so and I'm asking myself what the heck is this margin for a while here</p> <p>Let's picture that I can't use the <code>float:left;</code> tag for a reason, when I use <code>display:inline-block;</code> a weird margin apears on the elements (say divs) how do I fix it?</p> <p>Problem is on FF3, and IE8 never tested in other browsers but if it dos not work on these what will it work on?</p> <p><strong>Original Code</strong></p> <pre><code>&lt;!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"&gt; &lt;html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"&gt; &lt;head&gt; &lt;meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /&gt; &lt;title&gt;Why does that happen&lt;/title&gt; &lt;style type="text/css"&gt; * {padding:0px; margin:0 auto; vertical-class:baseline; text-class:left;} body {padding:0px; margin:0 auto;} div{margin: 0 auto;} div div{margin: 0;} .body {background:#CCC; width:900px; } .red {background:#F00; height:300px; width:300px; display:inline-block; margin-left:0px;} .blue {background:#03F; height:300px; width:300px; display:inline-block; margin-left:0px;} .green {background:#090; height:300px; width:300px; display:inline-block; margin-left:0px;} .light-blue {background:#39F; height:300px; width:300px; display:inline-block; margin-left:0px;} .light-green {background:#9FC; height:300px; width:300px; display:inline-block; margin-left:0px;} .heavy-red {background:#C00; height:300px; width:300px; display:inline-block; margin-left:0px;} &lt;/style&gt; &lt;/head&gt; &lt;body&gt; &lt;div class="body"&gt; &lt;div class="red"&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div class="blue"&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div class="green"&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div class="light-blue"&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div class="light-green"&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div class="heavy-red"&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;/body&gt; &lt;/html&gt; </code></pre> <p><strong>Solved: solution is eliminate the spacing in the markup:</strong></p> <pre><code>&lt;!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"&gt; &lt;html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"&gt; &lt;head&gt; &lt;meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /&gt; &lt;title&gt;Why does that happen&lt;/title&gt; &lt;style type="text/css"&gt; * {padding:0px; margin:0 auto; vertical-class:baseline; text-class:left;} body {padding:0px; margin:0 auto;} div{margin: 0 auto;} div div{margin: 0;} .body {background:#CCC; width:900px; } .red {background:#F00; height:300px; width:300px; display:inline-block; margin-left:0px;} .blue {background:#03F; height:300px; width:300px; display:inline-block; margin-left:0px;} .green {background:#090; height:300px; width:300px; display:inline-block; margin-left:0px;} .light-blue {background:#39F; height:300px; width:300px; display:inline-block; margin-left:0px;} .light-green {background:#9FC; height:300px; width:300px; display:inline-block; margin-left:0px;} .heavy-red {background:#C00; height:300px; width:300px; display:inline-block; margin-left:0px;} &lt;/style&gt; &lt;/head&gt; &lt;body&gt; &lt;div class="body"&gt; &lt;div class="red"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blue"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="green"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="light-blue"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="light-green"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="heavy-red"&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;/body&gt; &lt;/html&gt; </code></pre>
 

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