bruce.som...@web.de wrote on Friday, March 6, 2009: > > Von: "Els" <el...@tiscali.nl>
> > bruce.som...@web.de wrote: > > > > > 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>. > > What sort of 'things' can be within the body-element before the > columms? From where? Thing 1: the UTF-8 BOM Thing 2: the style element. > > The style-element IS contained within the head-element: > > <head> ... <style> ... </style> ... </head> ... <body> ... Firebug showed me the style element as first element inside <body>, right after the UTF-8 BOM. I didn't realise that this is probably caused by this very UTF-8 BOM, which I now see via view source, is before the doctype, and not inside <body> like Firebug showed. > I wonder why a BOM is being inserted with "text/html; > charset=us-ascii" . I have no idea about that, sorry. Just open the file in a different text editor than before, save it, re-upload, and check if it's gone. -- 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/
