Anyone know why this table has spacing - Page 2

**Kayla** · January 31st, 2007, 11:50 PM

And makes for unhappiness! At least these donuts are by my side.

**Brandonnn** · January 31st, 2007, 11:52 PM

... how many donuts did you get?

H · February 1st, 2007, 12:00 AM

Donuts FTW! Though I usually buy Timbits instead.

**Mykal** · February 5th, 2007, 8:18 PM

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Originally Posted by H

Donuts FTW! Though I usually buy Timbits instead.

Timbits? Heh, is that what they call them? I always called them Tim Holes. Whoops.

**Mykal** · February 5th, 2007, 8:27 PM

Kayla, I recommend using an unordered list for those links. Tables are for tabular data, even if it is just for testing. In other words, I agree with Mr. H.

**Kayla** · February 5th, 2007, 8:33 PM

I'm glad you brought this thread back up - I need to get to work on that, seriously.

meephead · February 5th, 2007, 10:27 PM

Hmm, I don't know, I'm going to take a stab in the dark and hope no one's face is there.

I used to have a similar problem but it was on IE, and I thought it was an IE specific issue. I went about it by specifying a really small font size, 1px or so, in the elements that were getting unnecessary padding. Even though there was no text in the div/table cell, something was stretching them, and it was fixed by simply doing that.

OK, I decided to test it, in the <table> with the dedimain images I put in a "style="font-size: 0px;" ", it decreased the gap to 1px high which is smaller than it was before, but no, it didn't completely eliminate it. What I'm saying is that it did do something so try playing with that.

Personally I'd simply try to avoid using tables, go with a div and display the images in a block, or something along those lines.

EDIT: Ok, I tried the div with "display: block;" thing... still doesn't remove the gap completely.. scratching my head right now...

**Kayla** · February 5th, 2007, 10:43 PM

Yes.. I wanted to actually figure it out though - because even if it's dirty and wrong, there should still be a way to make it work.

Thanks for trying!

I guess we can put this issue away into the depths of the unknown.

meephead · February 5th, 2007, 11:19 PM

I just googled, only found cheats like setting negative margins to get rid of that gap. And if it came to that I'd rather make the text into gifs with transparencies and have the background be a single image without the text. A small gap like that shouldn't cause any visual problems in that case.

Apparently it's frustrating a lot of people:

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I call this the gap problem and if you are Eric Meyer and you are reading this, maybe you could drop me a line and tell me how to avoid it (never mind that the rest of the tutorial may be too complicated anyway...). No matter what you do, set every margin and padding to 0, the gap will not disappear. You can of course make the font smaller but not until 5pt will you get a smaller gap between items. I also tried 1pt and there was still a gap between some items. Not all, which makes you wonder once again...

from: http://www.alexandersperl.de/tutorials/css/sitemap.html

January 31st, 2007, 11:50 PM	#10 (permalink)
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February 5th, 2007, 8:33 PM	#15 (permalink)
Kayla Searcher Surpass Staff Joined in May 2003 Lives in Orlando 24,509 posts Gave thanks: 936 Thanked 787 times	I'm glad you brought this thread back up - I need to get to work on that, seriously. __________________ Follow Surpass on Twitter and Facebook Check out interesting finds on the Surpass Blog .... it's coming.

February 5th, 2007, 10:27 PM	#16 (permalink)
meephead Registered User Comfy Contributor Joined in Aug 2006 Hosted on SH103 100 posts Gave thanks: 2 Thanked 4 times	Hmm, I don't know, I'm going to take a stab in the dark and hope no one's face is there. I used to have a similar problem but it was on IE, and I thought it was an IE specific issue. I went about it by specifying a really small font size, 1px or so, in the elements that were getting unnecessary padding. Even though there was no text in the div/table cell, something was stretching them, and it was fixed by simply doing that. OK, I decided to test it, in the <table> with the dedimain images I put in a "style="font-size: 0px;" ", it decreased the gap to 1px high which is smaller than it was before, but no, it didn't completely eliminate it. What I'm saying is that it did do something so try playing with that. Personally I'd simply try to avoid using tables, go with a div and display the images in a block, or something along those lines. EDIT: Ok, I tried the div with "display: block;" thing... still doesn't remove the gap completely.. scratching my head right now... __________________ [SH103] http://nemesia.org/ Last edited by meephead; February 5th, 2007 at 10:35 PM.

February 5th, 2007, 10:43 PM	#17 (permalink)
Kayla Searcher Surpass Staff Joined in May 2003 Lives in Orlando 24,509 posts Gave thanks: 936 Thanked 787 times	Yes.. I wanted to actually figure it out though - because even if it's dirty and wrong, there should still be a way to make it work. Thanks for trying! I guess we can put this issue away into the depths of the unknown. __________________ Follow Surpass on Twitter and Facebook Check out interesting finds on the Surpass Blog .... it's coming.

February 1st, 2007, 12:00 AM	#12 (permalink)
H after g, before i Resident. Joined in Jul 2004 Hosted on Gojira 8,032 posts Gave thanks: 48 Thanked 129 times	Donuts FTW! Though I usually buy Timbits instead.

February 5th, 2007, 8:27 PM	#14 (permalink)
Mykal Surpass Fan Seasoned Poster Joined in Feb 2007 Lives in Maine Hosted on SH110 40 posts Gave thanks: 3 Thanked 3 times	Kayla, I recommend using an unordered list for those links. Tables are for tabular data, even if it is just for testing. In other words, I agree with Mr. H.

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