Hi, When studying the basics of HTML and CSS I have to admit it is kind of addicting wanting to know everything. So I’m actively trying my best to find the answer on my own but a lot of times I really need your help. After a lot of minutes (almost 30 minutes) trying to find out what I did wron…

Hi again, and thanks for another great question! Before I go on with the response, I want to appreciate the great work that you’re doing. These questions not only help you, but they also help a lot of us here. Everything about this is right; First of all, you’re curious and want to learn, then you …

Nice explanation!I learned a lot! :smiley:

What did I do to confirm the conclusions? I wrote a simple text that has default display of inline I took an example of W3Schools of inline-block elements to see their behavior. I placed an image link between the text Conclusions Anchor element is by default an inline element Image behaves …

I found out that working this way helps me so much more than doing a bunch of tutorials, hoping to “understand” it. Literally I feel my brain is working and learning so much faster (even though it feels like it takes forever). I’ll never stop, because I really notice the benefits! :flexed_biceps: T…

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Great progress. So we far, we know why image behaves the way it does. The question is, why doesn’t the span when set to inline-block behave the same way as image? The reason is that img is a replaced element and span isn’t. What’s a replaced element. It’s an element whose content cannot be styled …

Wow.Excellent explaination! It also benefits me! :smiley:

My understanding of @JuniorQ explaination. span and its inner texts are two different parts but are combined together. I mean in HTML structure(nested). <span>inner texts</span> and the span container will be inhibited by its inner text due to the typography based on baseline. img which is a r…

Adding anchor link to an image causes extra space

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JuniorQ May 12, 2025, 12:59am 8

Yes, this seems more helpful than following tutorials. Even if it takes forever, the point is to learn something truly.

Keep up the good progress

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Adding anchor link to an image causes extra space

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