Spacing before a HTML Horizontal Line

Question

I was setting up some signatures in HTML which will end up in Outlook. One issue I have is that when inserting a horizontal line, it inserts a large space above and a smaller space below the line. My issue is the very large space above the horizontal line. It's almost the size of a full break

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If I manually edit the signature in Outlook by setting the spacing after the text that is just before the horizontal line it's okay, but I can't do this manually for the # of them I need to edit. Here is an example of my issue:

<html>
<head>
    <title>HTML Online Editor Sample</title>
</head>
<body>
    <p>
        <span style="font-size:12pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>This is a test</b></span></span></p>
    <hr style="height: 2px; width: 99%; background-color: #848484" />
    <p>
        <span style="font-size:10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Text under the line</b></span></span></p>
</body>
</html>

Is there a way I can tighten the text before or after the line?

score 8 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 27 '13 at 18:39

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Paragraph elements <p> have some natural padding anad marggin so try to add padding: 0 and margin: 0 to them

answered Feb 27 '13 at 18:39

Michael Tichoň

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This seems to be the case in this question, but there might be [other issues](http://en.blog.improveit.com.br/articles/2008/09/27/margins-on-the-hr-tag-a-case-solved) that could be addressed. – GordonsBeard Feb 27 '13 at 18:41

score 3 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 27 '13 at 18:41

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The hr and p elements have some padding/margins inserted by the by the browser. Add margin: 0; to remove that.

answered Feb 27 '13 at 18:41

Tom Oakley

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score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Feb 27 '13 at 21:02

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<hr style="height: 2px; width: 99%; margin:0 auto;line-height:2px;background-color: #848484"; border:0 none; />

OR

<hr style="height: 0; width: 99%; line-height:0;border-bottom:2px solid #848484; background:none;" />

fiddled here

answered Feb 27 '13 at 21:02

Milche Patern

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score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Feb 27 '13 at 20:17

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Always good to start with a reset CSS and take it from there.

Useful link: http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/css/reset/

answered Feb 27 '13 at 20:17

AdamRox

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Spacing before a HTML Horizontal Line

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