How do I remove the top margin in a web page?

Question

I have had this problem with every web page I have created. There is always a top margin above the \'main container\' div I use to place my content in the center of the pag

Answer 1

The same issue has been driving me crazy for several hours. What I found and you may want to check is html encoding. In my html file I declared utf-8 encoding and used Notepad++ to enter html code in utf-8 format. What I DID forget of was UTF-8 BOM and No BOM difference. It seems when utf-8 declared html file is written as UTF-8 BOM there is some invisible extra character at the begining of the file. The character (non-printable I guess) effects in one row of "text" at the top of the rendered page. And you cannot see the difference in source-view of the browser (Chrome in my case). Both nice and spoiled files seem identical to the very character, still one of them renders nicely and the other one shows this freaking upper margin.

To wrap it up the solution is to convert the file to UTF-8 NO BOM and one can do it in i.e. Notepad++.