A Space between Inline-Block List Items [duplicate]

Question

I have seen this and answered on it before:

After further research I have discovered that inline-block is a whitespace dependent method and is dependent on the font setting. In this case 4px is rendered.

To avoid this you could run all your lis together in one line, or block the end tags and begin tags together like this:

<ul>
        <li>
            <div>first</div>
        </li><li>
            <div>first</div>
        </li><li>
            <div>first</div>
        </li><li>
            <div>first</div>
        </li>
</ul>

Example here.

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As mentioned by other answers and comments, the best practice for solving this is to add font-size: 0; to the parent element:

ul {
    font-size: 0;
}

ul li {
    font-size: 14px;
    display: inline-block;
}

This is better for HTML readability (avoiding running the tags together etc). The spacing effect is because of the font's spacing setting, so you must reset it for the inlined elements and set it again for the content within.

Solution:

ul {
    font-size: 0;
}

ul li {
    font-size: 14px;
    display: inline-block;
}

You must set parent font size to 0

I would add the CSS property of float left as seen below. That gets rid of the extra space.

ul li {
    float:left;
}

Actually, this is not specific to display:inline-block, but also applies to display:inline. Thus, in addition to David Horák's solution, this also works:

ul {
    font-size: 0;
}
ul li {
    font-size: 14px;
    display: inline;
}

Another solution, similar to Gerbus' solution, but this also works with relative font sizing.

ul {
    letter-spacing: -1em; /* Effectively collapses white-space */
}
ul li {
    display: inline;
    letter-spacing: normal; /* Reset letter-spacing to normal value */
}