How to remove margin space around body or clear default css styles

Question

I am admittedly a beginner, but I also did a fair amount of searching before posting this. There seems to be extra space around my div element. I also would like to point ou

Answer 1

body has default margins: http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/sample.html

body { margin:0; } /* Remove body margins */

Or you could use this useful Global reset

* { margin:0; padding:0; box-sizing:border-box; }

If you want something less * global than:

html, body, body div, span, object, iframe, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, p, blockquote, pre, abbr, address, cite, code, del, dfn, em, img, ins, kbd, q, samp, small, strong, sub, sup, var, b, i, dl, dt, dd, ol, ul, li, fieldset, form, label, legend, table, caption, tbody, tfoot, thead, tr, th, td, article, aside, figure, footer, header, hgroup, menu, nav, section, time, mark, audio, video {
    margin: 0;
    padding: 0;
    border: 0;
    outline: 0;
    font-size: 100%;
    vertical-align: baseline;
    background: transparent;
}

some other CSS Reset:

http://yui.yahooapis.com/3.5.0/build/cssreset/cssreset-min.css
http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/css/reset/
https://github.com/necolas/normalize.css/
http://html5doctor.com/html-5-reset-stylesheet/
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