Link fills the rest of the page

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I have a link that when I put it in the code, the link fills the whole width

here is code:

html:

<a href="index.html"><p>&#8592; Go back home</p></a>

css:

html, body, div, span, applet, object, iframe, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, p, blockquote, pre, a, abbr, acronym, address, big, cite, code, del, dfn, em, img, ins, kbd, q, s, samp, small, strike, strong, sub, sup, tt, var, b, u, i, center, dl, dt, dd, ol, ul, li, fieldset, form, label, legend, table, caption, tbody, tfoot, thead, tr, th, td, article, aside, canvas, details, embed, figure, figcaption, footer, header, hgroup, menu, nav, output, ruby, section, summary, time, mark, audio, video {
		margin: 0;
		padding: 0;
		border: 0;
		outline: 0;
		font-size: 100%;
		font: inherit;
		vertical-align: baseline;
	}

What I have tried:

I have tried changing some of the variables like margin padding border outline, etc. But nothing has worked! Please help