Comments on: Mysterious Space above tables

By: andy

andy — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

I ran into a very similar thing while posting tables in a blog message — turns out I had the “Convert Line Breaks” option turned on for Movable Type. Bad idea!

By: Carey

Carey — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Hmm, it’s quite bizarre. I found the opposite to be true. I really don’t know why, but jamming the form tag between

and made the space disappear. I also only got the space on IE.

By: Carey

Carey — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Whoops. I meant between

and

By: Chungh

Chungh — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Great Tip!

Funny enough I had my own mysterious space saga just the other day. Was using tables to hold some images together like below, and couldn’t for the life of me work out why there were spaces in between the images:

If anyone falls for this trap, the trick is to keep all the tags together, dont put them on a seperate line. like so

cheers

By: Anna

Anna — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

The biggest culprit in my tenure is the dreaded form tag nestled somewhere between the table and td tags.

By: umair

umair — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

yeah, i hate tables too, yet still find myself having to use them…
try using valign=”top” as an attribute to the tags, that should get rid of the white space…

By: umair

umair — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

oops, i meant to say

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

if you have text outside a td tag (but still within table tags) - NOTHING will get rid of that “mysterious space”…. I’m not talking about space INSIDE the table - this would be space ABOVE the beginning of where the table is supposed to go - it’s basically the browser having an error because of bad code…