THANKS! that did it! amazing! figured it was something like that!
:rob
Ian Davey wrote:
> rob wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> It is my understanding that XHTML transitional documents are rendered
>> in standards mode. (please correct me if i'm wrong)
>>
>> We've been experimenting here with XHTML transitional code and we're
>> continually finding extra space around elements, particularly images
>> which are laid out horizontally in TD's, etc.
>>
>> I thought maybe a solution was to place an img style element with no
>> padding or margins, but this did not close up the tables.
>>
>> While I realize that ideally formatting and layout would all be
>> handled via stylesheets, for backwards compatibility and via the
>> "transitional" dtd we've been hoping to continue to use sort of a mix.
>>
>> Oh, and the pages in question render fine in IE ... sigh ...
>>
>> Any thoughts off hand, even without seeing the code?
>
>
> Images are inline elements, so they get the inline box drawn around
> them. There are a couple workarounds:
>
> td img {vertical-align: bottom}
>
> or
>
> td img {display: block}
>
> ian.
>
