I should have included the rest of the post... " The extra linebreak vanishes if you specify padding-bottom or border-bottom. I've opted for border-bottom. It's not ideal but it works.
http://inspire.server101.com/bttdb/mb/ " -----Original Message----- From: James Ellis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2003 3:39 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [WSG] IE whitespace issues hmm will try this out.. Do I need to spec "padding-bottom : 0px" or can I do "padding : 0 0 0 0 ;" ? i.e is it the word padding-bottom that makes IE do the right thing? Unfortunately no URL as the page is behind a firewall. Thanks James Miles Tillinger wrote: >>From an earlier post ('[WSG] relative positioning of nested lists') that sounds >>similar problem: > >"The extra linebreak vanishes if you specify padding-bottom or border-bottom." > >HTH. > >-----Original Message----- >From: James Ellis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2003 2:42 PM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: [WSG] IE whitespace issues > > > >Hi all > >I'm beating my head against a wall about this one... IE 5.5 and 6 is >putting in some mystery whitespace (looks like about 8-10 pixels - "a >line") after a horizontal navigation list. This hor. list has a nested >list holding some text within it. > >The UL tag is contained in a div - the bottom whitespace is in between >the bottom of the ul and the bottom of the div. > >This occurs when I set the width of the list to a fixed value (% or >px). When I set to auto the issue disappears but then when I roll over >a link in the list (<a>) the content block (a div) below the list moves >down the page one line at a time!!! - no javascript involved :D > >Has anyone seen or knows of a fix for this (I've tried everything I know.) > >Cheers >James > >***************************************************** >The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ >***************************************************** > >***************************************************** >The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ >***************************************************** > > > ***************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ ***************************************************** ***************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ *****************************************************
