No dice. No change at all. In 15+ years of web design, I've never seen
this happen. Zeroing it out should work....
I'm going to go with Jukka's idea of something interacting further
down. Wouldn't surprise me, given how complex (and, sadly,
proprietary) it is.
dw
On Sat, May 7, 2011 at 2:14 PM, John D <xfs...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> What I normally do is to start my CSS with this code:
>
> * {
> margin: 0;
> padding: 0;
> border: 0;
> }
>
> Then I enter another style like this:
>
> html, body {
> height: 100%;
> }
>
> And this normally clears any margins or paddings around any html
> tags/elements. You could paste the above two styles in your CSS to see if
> it makes any difference.
>
> Good luck.
>
>
>> I'm trying to drag my employer's GWT-driven website into standards
>> mode and have run into an odd bug that I was hoping someone else has
>> seen.
>>
>> I'm using the HTML5 doctype. There's a legacy quasi reset at the top
>> of the stylesheet:
>>
>> html {
>> height: 100%;
>> }
>> html,body,div,pre,form,fieldset,input,th,td {
>> margin: 0;
>> padding: 0;
>> font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
>> font-size: 11px;
>> }
>>
>> img,body,html {
>> border: 0;
>> }
>>
>> Gecko and Webkit respect this and correctly show the site without the
>> 2px gap around the outside. IE8 in Quirks Mode does as well. IE8 in
>> Standards Mode, though... there's a 2px gap. It shows in layout tab as
>> part of width -- body is 4px narrower than html. I've tried setting
>> these inline, and that doesn't make a difference.
>>
>> I cannot figure out how to fix this. Anyone encountered this? Any ideas?
>> dw
>
>
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Seattle, WA
Wired since 1972. Online since 1992.
http://dylanwilbanks.com
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