bruce.som...@web.de wrote: > I would appreciate it, if someone would look at > http://www.maireadnesbitt.com/initial.html > > The page has three columns: leftcontent, centercontent and > rightcontent. Why does the centercontent not begin at the top of > the window?
Because of there being 'things' before the columns inside the <body> element. > centercontent has no top margin, while rightcontent has a top > margin of 25 px. Why do they line up vertically, nonetheless? The top margin of the right content is overlapping the space that is caused by said 'things'. > There are 3 characters,  , at the top left of the window, whose > origin escapes me. They are not found anywhere in the HTML-file. > Has anyone seen such an occurence? That is something called "UTF-8 BOM". Your editor puts it in there I think. Choose an editor that doesn't add it, or one where you can choose to add or not add it. Personally I use TextPad (only on Windows), which has a tickbox for it, which I untick. The second thing that probably takes up space above your columns, is your <style> element. This belongs inside the <head> of your document, not in the <body>. > Thanks for any tips. You're welcome :-) -- Els ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
