html - display: inline-block extra margin

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Answer 1

White space affects inline elements.

This should not come as a surprise. We see it every day with span, strong and other inline elements. Set the font size to zero to remove the extra margin.

.container {
  font-size: 0px;
  letter-spacing: 0px;
  word-spacing: 0px;
}

.container > div {
  display: inline-block;
  margin: 0px;
  padding: 0px;
  font-size: 15px;
  letter-spacing: 1em;
  word-spacing: 2em;
}

The example would then look like this.

<div class="container">
  <div>First</div>
  <div>Second</div>
</div>

A jsfiddle version of this. http://jsfiddle.net/QtDGJ/1/