Unwanted space in IE?
I have a navigation bar that goes something like this:
<div id="nav">
LINK 1
LINK 2
LINK 3
</div>
<div id="shadow">
IMG OF SHADOW...5PX high
</div>This displays as expected in opera and firefox, but there is space between the nav and shadow in IE.
If i move everything in the NAV div to a single line, it works. If I unindent the links it doesn't.. it seems that I need to have the entire div on one line to overcome this.. am I missing something!?
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Renegade posted this at 19:56 — 15th March 2006.
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It's because IE reads the extra space that you have put in for tabbing and making things easier to read. This is why putting things on a single line works. However, I have seen one or two people code like the following to solve this IE thing:
<div id="nav"><ul
><li
>Link 1</li
></ul
></div>
Triexa.com posted this at 19:59 — 15th March 2006.
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Yikes that's ugly!
Is there anything else I can do, allowing for the indents?
The other solution I thought of it so "build" it through PHP... then each echo statement wouldn't print out these tab issues...
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Triexa.com posted this at 19:58 — 15th March 2006.
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Here is a test page:
http://www.triexa.com/temp/test.php
Its JUST the menu+shadow..
Roo posted this at 20:34 — 15th March 2006.
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Yes IE had quirks when things are not on the same line for example:
If you have
Contnent
IE will leave a gap.
If you do
Content
The gap would close.
Roo
Triexa.com posted this at 21:22 — 15th March 2006.
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So what about a solution...? Anyone?
Roo posted this at 01:56 — 16th March 2006.
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How is this supposed to display? You have it posted like it's supposed to be a list, but there isn't the list tags?
This would display the links horizontally...
LINK 1 LINK 2 LINK 3
IMG OF SHADOW...5PX high
'Course we don't know how this is supposed to display, and we don't know what is in the css for those id's.
Roo
Triexa.com posted this at 03:51 — 16th March 2006.
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I posted the page (http://www.triexa.com/temp/test.php) which shows the code, and how the shadow is pushed down in IE... ?
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Renegade posted this at 06:04 — 16th March 2006.
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Well, I just had a quick try at it and this is what I came up with:
http://chengeu.orcon.net.nz/temp/twf/
Works in IE and FF (most probably Opera too) is validates as XHTML strict. CSS is also valid. Why don't you give it a try and see how it works for you. Feel free to change the text links to images, it should work the same.
Good luck
Triexa.com posted this at 15:44 — 16th March 2006.
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Seeing as how I am just starting the layout... I wonder if I should go for XHTML... or 4.01 transitional
Renegade posted this at 17:41 — 16th March 2006.
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Well, I think if you're just starting out, you should go for XHTML Transitional. That way, it will be easier for you to move to strict. If you're serious about the web, you're going to learn XHTML. Just miss an extra step and go straight to it
Triexa.com posted this at 19:15 — 16th March 2006.
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What is "so" different about XHTML though? Like really the only thing I truly notice is closing of non-closing tags.. like BR. And fewer attributes, more configured through CSS... what else is there to it? 'Cause that's easy, haha!
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Busy posted this at 20:01 — 16th March 2006.
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Thats about it, and all tags lowercase.
XHTML is just a cleaned up version of HTML really, with a side serving of CSS to spruce things up
Roo posted this at 20:28 — 16th March 2006.
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Ah but the best thing about xhtml is that it won't let you screw up! Go ahead and forget one measly little quote mark and watch a whole page get tossed into a hissy fit!
If you've got an an issue, you know that you've left someting out or forgotten to put something in.
Roo
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