-webkit-margin adds unwanted margin on texts

Question

This hadn\'t hit me until now (and this is not only in webkit browsers). On all texts in like p tags, h1 tags etc... there\'s an extra space over a

Answer 1

I was having this same problem with my

tag. I tried setting margin:0;, but it didn't work.

I found that I was habitually commenting out lines in my css by using //. I never noticed it because it hadn't caused any problems before. But when I used // in the line before declaring

, it caused the browser to skip the declaration completely. When I traded out // for /**/ I was able to adjust the margin.

Moral of this story: Always use proper commenting syntax!