Empty div (with style: height) will not display

Question

Incredibly simple piece of HTML - but not displaying how I would expect.

I\'m trying to create an empty div that displays as whitespace on the top of the p

Answer 1

For who looking for a white space (not exactly an empty div) you can add an empty span so the div is no more considered as empty one.

Avoid using   because the default font-size can make the div higher than you want.

div{
    height:200px;
    background:#ff8800;
}