Remove space above and below <p> tag HTML

Question

Take this ul for example:

<ul>
    <li>HI THERE</li>
    <br>
    <li>
        <p>ME</p>
    </li>
</ul>

When the innerHtml of an li tag is blank, the li wraps itself right up to the text.

It doesn't happen for the p tag. I'm assuming this is because p is for paragraphs which usually have white space breaks before and after.

Is there any way to remove this?

Answer 1

<p> elements generally have margins and / or padding. You can set those to zero in a stylesheet.

li p {
    margin: 0;
    padding: 0;
}

Semantically speaking, however, it is fairly unusual to have a list of paragraphs.

Answer 2

Look here: http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_p.asp

The p element automatically creates some space before and after itself. The space is automatically applied by the browser, or you can specify it in a style sheet.

you could remove the extra space by using css

p {
   margin: 0px;
   padding: 0px;
}

or use the element <span> which has no default margins and is an inline element.