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CSS How to Make a Website Styling Web Pages and Navigation Polish the Navigation and Footer

VISHAL DEEPAK
VISHAL DEEPAK
3,272 Points
Posted by VISHAL DEEPAK
VISHAL DEEPAK
3,272 Points

Non-Clickable area between the ul elements

I found that adding padding to the "nav a" elements has made the clickable area bigger. But between two "li" elements they are is some non clickable area. How did this get formed? I tried adding the following code, but the non-clickable area was still there

nav li{
   display:inline-block;
   margin: 0;
}

1 Answer

Ryan Field
PLUS
Ryan Field
Courses Plus Student 21,242 Points
Ryan Field
Ryan Field
Courses Plus Student 21,242 Points

Hi, Vishal. I think I know what is happening. You probably have your code like this:

<ul>
  <li>
    <a href="#">item1</a>
  </li>
  <li>
    <a href="#">item2</a>
  </li>
</ul>

If this is the case, then what is causing the space between the two list items is the space and/or line break between the closing </li> tag of the first item and the opening <li> tag of the second item. There are a few ways you can fix this. First, you could give li a declaration of margin-left: -4px; in your CSS. The other option is to either remove all of the white space/line breaks with the delete key, or comment it out like this:

<ul>
  <li>
    <a href="#">test</a>
  </li><!--  This will comment out the space
  --><li>
    <a href="#">test</a>
  </li>
</ul>