DreamWeaver-How to make text in seperate cells closer?
I am using dream weaver (I know little to no HTML) and I want the space between two cells of text to be smaller. (One is above the other)
The cells are the secondary side navigation for the site and I want a nice tight list. (not spread out vertically)
They were perfect when I started but at some point became twice as far apart as they used to be, when i preview.
I have already tried to just make the cells smaller by dragging their bottoms up and by typing in a smaller cell height, but to no avail.
Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated
Busy posted this at 09:12 — 5th January 2006.
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Is this in a table? if so have you set cellpadding and cellspacing to 0 ?
indosean posted this at 02:16 — 6th January 2006.
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Busy,
i just checked the padding and spacing as you suggested and they are both 0. Any other ideas?
thanks
indosean posted this at 02:47 — 6th January 2006.
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Busy,
I checked out your website (one of many i see) hoping i might be able to find the answer there.
I did not, but i did you see your side nav shares the same basic characteristics that i was looking for i tried to copy yours (i hope you see copying as a complement) by putting my list all in the same cell but that did not work the spacing is still huge, as if i have selected double spacing some where or some such. i am working on getting up as work in progress so all can see it.
thanks
DaveyBoy posted this at 06:06 — 6th January 2006.
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i think sometimes the height of the cells in dreamweaver is defaulted to 19 unless you add a style to the text in it or the actual cell, i think anyway!
Busy posted this at 08:57 — 6th January 2006.
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any chance of seeing your cource code? a url perhaps
The Webmistress posted this at 09:01 — 6th January 2006.
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As busy says we really need to see what you are doing as it might or might not be something to do with DW, most probably the table structure is wrong somewhere
Julia - if life was meant to be easy Michael Angelo would have painted the floor....
hardline posted this at 13:55 — 7th January 2006.
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Change the cellspacing and cellpadding by numbers, Enter a number in place of the 0's. 1 is larger, 2 is larger than 1. It goes by pixels so the greater the number the more spacing you will have.
Chris
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indosean posted this at 08:41 — 9th January 2006.
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how is this? (it is the code for the cell i am working with)
maps
language
pictures
food
more
things
here
DaveyBoy posted this at 08:54 — 9th January 2006.
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instead of using the tag - ie. pressing enter for a new line
try - which is SHIFT+ENTER to move down.
Busy posted this at 09:57 — 9th January 2006.
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(or for xhtml) is the answer but you don't need that second table there, use rowspan instead
indosean posted this at 15:12 — 12th January 2006.
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it worked!! (shift return)
i guess my original idea of using separate cells for the nav was not good...
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