Mysterious Appearance of Top Margin :S

HTML & CSS
1

Hey guys,

Here’s what happened:

I created a container, like so:


#container {
	margin: 0 auto;
	width: 960px;
	background-color: #FFF;
	border: 1px solid;
}

then I created the container div on my HTML document like so:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
    <title>title</title>

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="screen" href="style.css" />

</head>
<body>
    <div id="container">container</div>
</body>
</html>

And I see this mysterious top margin, here:

The problem occurs on Chrome, Firefox and IE8 (also, the height of the margin seems to be greater on the IE).

Could this be because of the DTD I am using? I am not very adept with DTD’s as yet (neither am I an adept at CSS, evidently lol)

Thanks!

2

DTDs won’t cause this :). It’s probably the margins set on the body element.

body{margin:0;}

Although I think you should know that having an XML declaration above the doctype will trigger quirks mode in IE. Remove that XML declration. Nothing should be above the doctype :slight_smile:

3

YOU SIR, I WOULD LIKE TO SHOW MY GRATITUDE BY THANKING YOU VIA ALL-CAPS!

And I’ll remove the XML declaration also :slight_smile:

4

You’re welcome lol :). I was going to respond back in all caps but it keeps turning it into capitalized words and not uppercase…drats…:stuck_out_tongue: