display: inline-block extra margin [duplicate]

Answer 1

Cleaner way to remove those spaces is by using float: left; :

DEMO

HTML:

Some Text
Some Text

CSS:

div {
    background-color: red;
    float: left;
}

I'ts supported in all new browsers. Never got it why back when IE ruled lot's of developers didn't make sue their site works well on firefox/chrome, but today, when IE is down to 14.3 %. anyways, didn't have many issues in IE-9 even thought it's not supported, for example the above demo works fine.