Re: HTML elements seem to have borders

Hijacking my thread, Gary Dale wrote:
> Dylan Parry wrote:
> > Using a pointed stick and pebbles, Gary Dale scraped:
> >
> >
> >>Can someone please explain what is going on here?
> >
> >
> > Could you post a URL? It is very difficult to figure out what is going
> > wrong when you only posted the code, which without the images etc is not
> > complete.
> >
>
> Didn't have it running anywhere. Anyway, the problem seems generic.
> Tables seem to have hidden, non-removable borders.
>
> I've got some test code in www.muslimcanadiancongress.org/test.html
> which shows the problem. To make it less visible, I started the span 2
> pixels to the right of the left edge of the page. That makes it line up
> with the leftmost column in the table.
>
> To see the problem with the image, just write your own page and put a
> border at the bottom of an image.
>
> Another problem is getting the right column to space out properly. With
> FireFox it looks perfect. With Konqueror they are too close and with IE
> they are too far apart. I've read that IE treats height and width as
> suggestions, but it apparently also feels that in doing its
> calculations, it should ignore position tags too. To be fair, so does
> FireFox, but at least it allowed me to build a div box around things to
> position them properly. With Konqueror the problem is mainly the font
> sizes it uses.

Erm, two things.

1. Please open your own thread instead of hijacking someone else's.
That's lame.

2. Why is everyone telling me to validate? How does that have anything
to do with it? Anyways, I fixed this problem by applying a width to my
absolute DIV... that seemed to punch firefox into submission.

.

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