CSS line spacing between h2 and p

[cooknwitha]

I'll try and make this logical as I can manage. Is it possible in CSS code to make the spacing between an h2 and a p field to appear like it's only being separated by a <br>?

Hello, I'm an H2 Heading

And I'm a P field. See how I have a gap??

- - - -

I would like this to be the H2 heading
And for this to be the p field.

Am I making any sense? Obviously I can make the h2 lines p and manipulate them with the <span> command that but I'm trying to keep my code as simple as possible and trying to control appearance from one CSS file.

I hope I'm making sense. I'm a little muddled in the head at the moment.

[Mitthrawnuruodo]

In your css (or just in a style tag) set margin and padding to 0px for both h2 and p and they should get considerably closer...

[cooknwitha]

You, Mitthrawnuruodo, are a champion!! I think I tried almost every combination with padding and margin except that! I wanted it to go

HEADING
Para Para Para Para Para Para Para
Para Para Para Para Para Para Para
Para Para Para Para Para Para Para

HEADING
Para Para Para Para Para Para Para
Para Para Para Para Para Para Para
Para Para Para Para Para Para Para

And I've now achieved that with:

h2 {
	padding:0px;
	margin:0px;
	}
p {
	padding:0px;
	margin-top:0px;
	}

Thank you so so much! That's going to save me a lot of trouble.

[Mitthrawnuruodo]

No problem... just glad to help...

I've never understood why the h-tags and p-tag has all that margin by default... that's just <mumble /> stupid...

[cooknwitha]

I agree. I'm in the process of changing my old Flash-based website into HTML with CSS and I love the flexibility of it. But the gaps between the h tags were driving me insane. But now I've fixed that.

CSS is great though. I had no idea it was so flexible. Not a table to be seen. Not to mention relatively simple to understand.

[viper5646]

I was having the same problem

[Mal]

Sounds like a CSS reset would be of use to you. It's set of CSS rules that are often loaded as a separate file, or appended to the beginning of your CSS stylesheet, which sets margin, padding, etc, to 0 for all tags. Google "CSS reset" to find a couple options that will work well.

jW

[Hermes Monster]

Originally Posted by Mal

Sounds like a CSS reset would be of use to you. It's set of CSS rules that are often loaded as a separate file, or appended to the beginning of your CSS stylesheet, which sets margin, padding, etc, to 0 for all tags. Google "CSS reset" to find a couple options that will work well.

jW

the reset css is a nice idea, but can sometimes cause work in the long run (as I've just found out after inheriting a website!) when coming to add margins etc later on.

[angelwatt]

Originally Posted by Hermes Monster

the reset css is a nice idea, but can sometimes cause work in the long run (as I've just found out after inheriting a website!) when coming to add margins etc later on.

You should be manually setting the CSS properties for elements though as browsers are not consistent in the properties they employ. It's the whole reason for having the reset. It may seem like more work, but it's much easier than tracking some obscure difference between browsers later.

[manueld]

Originally Posted by angelwatt

You should be manually setting the CSS properties for elements though as browsers are not consistent in the properties they employ. It's the whole reason for having the reset. It may seem like more work, but it's much easier than tracking some obscure difference between browsers later.

I completely agree, it's much easier to set your properties for elements rather than the various browser default stylesheets that can cause way too many headaches. I personally use Eric Myers Reset.

[Jason S.]

Another way you can do this with the adjacent selector in CSS:

[HTML]
h2 + p {
padding: 0;
margin: 0;
}
[/HTML]

Basically, this will apply the style to the <p> tag ONLY if it comes directly after a <h2> tag. So now if you were to use another heading tag, such as <h1> or <h3> you can style those however you want (for example, if you don't want the heading and paragraph to be close).