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I have this meticulous problem,

  1. I have a test html page whose body content is a single div tag.
  2. I made the width and height of the div tag to 100% and colored the background red.

And I get irritated by the white space border around the div tag. So my questions are:

  1. What is the white space border around that div element?
  2. How do I manipulate it OR get rid of it?
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You can use CSS to remove it.

Before and After.

Just inserted

body, html {
    border: 0;
    height: 100%;
    margin: 0;
    padding: 0;
    width: 100%;
}

into the CSS. You have to set the height (and occasionally on mobile devices the width too) to 100% in order for the div to follow suit. Then changing the border, margin and padding to 0 (no px, etc) has stood me well for years. Although the floor is open to alternatives.

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i love you! Thanks! – Richeve Bebedor Apr 19 '11 at 5:57

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