There is a 4px gap below canvas/video/audio elements in HTML5

It’s because they are inline elements with resizable height (most inline elements are not explicitly resizable). If you set them to display: block; the gap goes away. You can also set vertical-align: top; to achieve the same result.

Demo: http://jsfiddle.net/ThinkingStiff/F2LAK/

HTML:

<div class="container">
    <canvas width="200" height="100"></canvas>
</div>
<div class="container">
    <canvas id="block" width="200" height="100"></canvas>
</div>

CSS:

.container {
    border: 1px solid blue;
}

canvas {
    border: 1px solid red;
}

#block {
    display: block;
}

Output:

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