Remove padding for an empty element

Question

I\'m generating a page for an upcoming portal site, and I\'ve got an HTML element with some optional content. I\'d like the element to not render if it is empty, but adding some

Answer 1

If it's necessary to have the div.someElement in the HTML, the best CSS/HTML way to do that would be to add an extra div around the added content that has the padding property

.someElement > div{padding-top:5px;}

Content

Otherwise, do as Pekka says, or take a look at having javascript do it for you.