Question

Tried these two and they don’t work. It seems something really simple but cannot find anything on this topic.

CSS:

#element * { padding: 0; margin 0; }

jQuery:

$("#element").children("*").css("padding", "0");
$("#element").children("*").css("margin", "0");

Thank you in advance.

Answer 1

You want to use .find if you’re going the jQuery route. .children only goes a single level deep.

$('#element').find('*').css('padding', '0');

http://jsfiddle.net/gromer/yg3CL/1/

Pure CSS:

body * {
    margin: 0;
    padding: 0;
}