Unwanted Margin in Inline-Block List Items

Unwanted margin in inline-block list items

This is caused by the display: inline-block;

li {
    display: inline-block;
    padding: 10px;
    width: 114px;
    border: solid 1px #f00;
    margin: 0;
}

Change it to float: left;.

I thought it was the padding but took a closer look and turns out it was the display :)

Example here.

After further research I have discovered that inline-block is a whitespace dependent method and renders a 4px margin to the right of each element.

To avoid this you could run all your lis together in one line, or block the end tags and begin tags together like this:

<ul>
        <li>
            <div>first</div>
        </li><li>
            <div>first</div>
        </li><li>
            <div>first</div>
        </li><li>
            <div>first</div>
        </li>
</ul>

Example here.

Hope that helps :)

Strange margin on `display:inline-block`-elements

Write font-size:0;. Like this:

#container{
    width:300px;
    border:1px solid black;
    font-size:0;
}

Check this http://jsfiddle.net/y7L7q/1/

OR

Write your mark like this:

<div id="container">
    <div class="box"></div><div class="box"></div><div class="box"></div><div class="box"></div><div class="box"></div><div class="box"></div>
</div>

Check this http://jsfiddle.net/y7L7q/2/

A space between inline-block list items

I have seen this and answered on it before:

After further research I have
discovered that inline-block is a
whitespace dependent method and
is dependent on the font setting. In this case 4px is rendered.

To avoid this you could run all your
lis together in one line, or block
the end tags and begin tags together
like this:

<ul>
        <li>
            <div>first</div>
        </li><li>
            <div>first</div>
        </li><li>
            <div>first</div>
        </li><li>
            <div>first</div>
        </li>
</ul>

Example here.

As mentioned by other answers and comments, the best practice for solving this is to add font-size: 0; to the parent element:

ul {
    font-size: 0;
}

ul li {
    font-size: 14px;
    display: inline-block;
}

This is better for HTML readability (avoiding running the tags together etc). The spacing effect is because of the font's spacing setting, so you must reset it for the inlined elements and set it again for the content within.

display: inline-block extra margin

The divs are treated as inline-elements. Just as a space or line-break between two spans would create a gap, it does between inline-blocks. You could either give them a negative margin or set word-spacing: -1; on the surrounding container.

How to remove the space between inline/inline-block elements?

Alternatively, you should now use flexbox to achieve many of the layouts that you may previously have used inline-block for: https://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/a-guide-to-flexbox/

Since this answer has become rather popular, I'm rewriting it significantly.

Let's not forget the actual question that was asked:

How to remove the space between inline-block elements? I was hoping
for a CSS solution that doesn't require the HTML source code to be
tampered with. Can this issue be solved with CSS alone?

It is possible to solve this problem with CSS alone, but there are no completely robust CSS fixes.

The solution I had in my initial answer was to add font-size: 0 to the parent element, and then declare a sensible font-size on the children.

http://jsfiddle.net/thirtydot/dGHFV/1361/

This works in recent versions of all modern browsers. It works in IE8. It does not work in Safari 5, but it does work in Safari 6. Safari 5 is nearly a dead browser (0.33%, August 2015).

Most of the possible issues with relative font sizes are not complicated to fix.

However, while this is a reasonable solution if you specifically need a CSS only fix, it's not what I recommend if you're free to change your HTML (as most of us are).

This is what I, as a reasonably experienced web developer, actually do to solve this problem:

<p>
    <span>Foo</span><span>Bar</span>
</p>

Yes, that's right. I remove the whitespace in the HTML between the inline-block elements.

It's easy. It's simple. It works everywhere. It's the pragmatic solution.

You do sometimes have to carefully consider where whitespace will come from. Will appending another element with JavaScript add whitespace? No, not if you do it properly.

Let's go on a magical journey of different ways to remove the whitespace, with some new HTML:

<ul>
    <li>Item 1</li>
    <li>Item 2</li>
    <li>Item 3</li>
</ul>

• You can do this, as I usually do:

   <ul>
       <li>Item 1</li><li>Item 2</li><li>Item 3</li>
   </ul>
  

http://jsfiddle.net/thirtydot/dGHFV/1362/

• Or, this:

   <ul>
       <li>Item 1</li
       ><li>Item 2</li
       ><li>Item 3</li>
   </ul>
  

• Or, use comments:

   <ul>
       <li>Item 1</li><!--
       --><li>Item 2</li><!--
       --><li>Item 3</li>
   </ul>
  

• Or, if you are using using PHP or similar:

   <ul>
       <li>Item 1</li><?
       ?><li>Item 2</li><?
       ?><li>Item 3</li>
   </ul>
  

• Or, you can even skip certain closing tags entirely (all browsers are fine with this):

   <ul>
       <li>Item 1
       <li>Item 2
       <li>Item 3
   </ul>
  

Now that I've gone and bored you to death with "one thousand different ways to remove whitespace, by thirtydot", hopefully you've forgotten all about font-size: 0.

Different margins in elements with inline-block

As one possible option to fix the problem, set the font-size of the parent to 0.

section { font-size: 0; }

You can restore the font on the child elements:

div { font-size: 16px; }

Demo: https://jsfiddle.net/dfdxa5hc/3/

For an explanation and other possible solutions, see my answer here:

• inline-block boxes not fitting in their container

Display inline-block generates a margin-bottom that i can't remove

The space you are seeing is the space given to the descender height of letters like a lowercase y or g when an element's display value is set to inline-block;. You are essentially treating an element like it is text when you set it to display: inline-block;.

To fix, remove display: inline-block; from your .posts DIV. It doesn't need it for the layout you have.

CSS crazyness inline-block unremovable margin

Best answer is @emmanuel one (see question comment).
Even if there is no text, spaces beetwen divs does count.

* {  padding: 0px;  margin: 0px;}.section {  display: inline-block;  width: 20%;  min-height: 50px;  box-sizing: border-box;  border: solid 1px;  /*float: left;*/}

<div id="container">  <div class="section">a</div><!--  --><div class="section">b</div><!--  --><div class="section">c</div><!--  --><div class="section">d</div><!--  --><div class="section">e</div></div>