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

I can't think of a CSS only way to do that.

I would try to decide whether the element is rendered at the time I know whether there will be any content in it. That is probably the cleanest solution.