[WSG] narrowing the gap between h3 and ul-help

[kvnmcwebn]

hello all,

 just tryin to narrow the distance between my h3 element and some unordered
lists.
easy enough in ff but negative margins dont seem to budge the ul in ie.

example html

http://www.mcmonagle.biz/mockup/final5.htm


css
http://www.mcmonagle.biz/mockup/index3.css

http://www.mcmonagle.biz/mockup/nav.css


-best
kvncwebn


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Re: [WSG] narrowing the gap between h3 and ul-help

[Patrick H. Lauke]

kvnmcwebn wrote:


 just tryin to narrow the distance between my h3 element and some unordered
lists.
easy enough in ff but negative margins dont seem to budge the ul in ie.


Not looked at your CSS, but...there's really no need to get out negative 
margins. Have you set the bottom margin (and padding) of the h3 and the 
top margin (and padding) of the ul (and possibly the li elements therein)?


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RE: [WSG] narrowing the gap between h3 and ul-help

[kvnmcwebn]

Not looked at your CSS, but...there's really no need to get out negative 
margins. Have you set the bottom margin (and padding) of the h3 and the 
top margin (and padding) of the ul (and possibly the li elements therein)?


i just set all of the above to 0 and it worked.

thanks patrick 


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RE: [WSG] narrowing the gap between h3 and ul-help

[Paul Noone]

I think your negative margins are getting the better of you. Because both
elements directly follow each other there shouldn't be any need to do
anything othet than set H# bottom and UL/LI top margins and padding to 0.

The change below worked for me.


.mainleft ul {
margin-top: 0px;


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Subject: [WSG] narrowing the gap between h3 and ul-help


hello all,

 just tryin to narrow the distance between my h3 element and some unordered
lists.
easy enough in ff but negative margins dont seem to budge the ul in ie.

example html

http://www.mcmonagle.biz/mockup/final5.htm


css
http://www.mcmonagle.biz/mockup/index3.css

http://www.mcmonagle.biz/mockup/nav.css


-best
kvncwebn


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RE: [WSG] narrowing the gap between h3 and ul-help

[kvnmcwebn]

Negative margins will always come back to haunt you later :D

I suppose I was cutting corners using them...its just that sometimes 
they seem to save a lot of hassle-probably because i dont 
have a deep enough understanding of document flow and such. 

thanks
kvnmcwebn



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