html - How to get rid of extra space below svg in div element

Question

Here is an illustration of the problem (tested in Firefox and Chrome):

<div style="background-color: red;"><svg height="100px" width="100" style="background-color: blue;"></svg></div>

Answer 1

You need display: block; on your svg.

<svg style="display: block;"></svg>

This is because inline-block elements (like <svg> and <img>) sit on the text baseline. The extra space you are seeing is the space left to accommodate character descenders (the tail on 'y', 'g' etc).

You can also use vertical-align:top if you need to keep it inline or inline-block