I have an empty space that keeps growing in size and I have no idea why

Question

Picture of question: Picture of the question

If you look at the previous image, you'll see that I have a huge empty space there. When I have my normal display (around 1200 pixels) everything is fine. However, when the width is reduced, that empty space always increases and I don't know why this is happening.

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I will upload a portion of the HTML and CSS code so that the code can be written clearly.

.about-me{
margin-top: 10px;
max-width: 100%;
max-height: 100%;
height: 100vh;
}

.about-me h1{
color: goldenrod;
text-align: center;
font-size: 52px;
}

.about-me .about{
display: flex;
justify-content: center;
align-items: center;
}

.about-me .about .text-container{
max-width: 70%;
}

.about-me .about .text-container p{
font-size: 24px;
text-align: center;
margin: 50px;
}

.about-me .about .text-container span{
color: goldenrod;
font-weight: 900;
}

.border{
display: flex;
justify-content: center;
align-items: center;

border: 1px solid goldenrod;
background-color: goldenrod;
border-radius: 50%;

margin: 0 50px;
max-width: 100%;
}

.about-me .border img{
max-width: 100%;
max-height: 100%;
border-radius: 50%;
scale: 95%;
box-shadow: 0 0 10px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2);
}

<div class="about-me" id="about-me">
    <h1>What are we? </h1>
    <div class="about">
        <div class="text-container">
            <p>Text</p>

            <p>Text</p>

            <p>Text</p>
        </div>

        <div class="border">
            <img src="img/arcos.jpg" alt="">
        </div>
    </div>
</div>

Answer 1

I see the problem. The huge empty space is caused by the max-width: 100%; attribute on the .about-me div. This attribute tells the browser to set the div's width to 100% of its container. However, when the width of the container is reduced, the div will still try to maintain the 100% width, which will create an empty space.

To fix this problem, you can remove the max-width: 100%; attribute from the .about-me div. This will allow the div to shrink based on the width of its content, thus eliminating empty space.