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CSS Tips: Fix extra space after inline element

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Let me write this because I’m going to forget.

I was designing a page and ran into a problem. I had this markup:

<span class='mr-2 px-0.5 py-0 rounded-sm 
  text-sm font-bold text-black bg-yellow-400'>
  DEMO
</span>

Problem was, I had an extra space on the right of the span element:

The Prettier auto-formatter put the tag content on its own line, and I didn’t want to fight that.

To fix this, I set the element to be display: inline-block by adding the inline-block Tailwind CSS class.

Problem solved:

Lessons in this unit:

0: Introduction
1: How to center an element with CSS
2: CSS Border inside the element
3: What are good CSS Breakpoint values for Responsive Design?
4: How to debug CSS by bisecting
5: How to disable text selection using CSS
6: How to put an item at the bottom of its container using CSS
7: CSS, how to select elements that do not have a class
8: How to stick an element on the bottom of the page with flexbox
9: How to apply padding to multiple lines in CSS
10: Making a table responsive using CSS
11: CSS url()
12: How to make an element smaller or bigger with CSS
13: Customizing visited links
14: ▶︎ Fix extra space after inline element
15: How to create a sidebar that’s sticky but also scrolls
16: How to embed YouTube videos using the correct aspect ratio
17: Responsive pre tags in CSS
18: Responsive YouTube Video Embeds
19: How to remove all CSS from a page at once
20: How I added Dark Mode to my website
21: How to add a simple dark mode