[ale] OT: CSS confusion

Thu Mar 13 12:13:32 EST 2003

Tom,

You're using header tags. The spacing is *supposed* to be large. You
should be using <p> tags for standard body text. If you absolutely must
use header tags for whatever reason, your complaint is easily solved by
tweaking the margin.

See: http://www.accipiter.org/moztest/tom.html

That's the result of simply adding "margin: 3px;" to your h3 definition. 

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Thus Spake Tom & JaVonn <pairoftwins at mindspring.com>:
Thu, 13 Mar 2003 12:07:45 -0500

> Christopher:
> 
> The problem is huge spaces between the lines of text, which I've been
> unable to reduce.  Remove the CSS and it looks OK.
> 
> Mozilla 1.0  huge spaces between lines, header of table 3-4 times as
> high as text inside Netscape 6.2.3  same as Mozilla
> Opera 5      huge spaces between lines, header of table OK (same as
> body)
> 
> So, a table becomes largely empty space with text in the middle, except
> with Opera. In all cases, two adjacent lines, each enclosed in CSS tags,
> have a large gap between them. I tried upgrading Mozilla to 1.2.1, but
> in Debian it would have meant pulling libc6 and libstdc++ from the
> unstable tree, which didn't appeal.  Besides, hasn't CSS been around
> since 1998 ?  Mozilla 1.0 should support that.
> 
> Hope this helps,
> 
> Tom
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> ---------------------- On Thu, 13 Mar 2003 09:47:25 -0500
> "Christopher R. Curzio" <ale at accipiter.org> wrote:
> 
> > Cool. Thanks.
> > 
> > I had a look at your page, and your CSS. I can't figure out what it is
> > you're asking. The page seems to render just fine, exactly as the CSS
> > dictates. What are you trying to accomplish? Where's the problem?
> > 
> > -- 
> > Christopher R. Curzio     |  Quantum materiae materietur marmota monax
> > http://www.accipiter.org  |  si marmota monax materiam possit
> > materiari?:wq!
> > 
> > 
> > Thus Spake Tom & JaVonn <pairoftwins at mindspring.com>:
> > Thu, 13 Mar 2003 09:07:00 -0500
> > 
> > 
> > > Christopher:
> > > 
> > > OK here is a sample, using a CSS copied and pasted from StyleBank,
> > > which doesn't exist today, but did two weeks ago. (All googles links
> > > come up"missing domain" today)  The table is from a friend's site,
> > > which I'm wanting to remove embedded font info from, and modernize.
> > > 
> > > http://www.darecomputer.com/sample_css.html
> > > 
> > > Thanks,
> > > 
> > > Tom
> > > ----------------------------------------------------
> > > On Thu, 13 Mar 2003 08:27:28 -0500
> > > "Christopher R. Curzio" <ale at accipiter.org> wrote:
> > > 
> > > > You're not really going to get anywhere unless you provide an
> > > > example of the page that exhibits this behavior. Please provide a
> > > > link.
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > -- 
> > > > Christopher R. Curzio     |  Quantum materiae materietur marmota
> > > > monax http://www.accipiter.org  |  si marmota monax materiam
> > > > possit materiari?:wq!
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > Thus Spake Tom & JaVonn <pairoftwins at mindspring.com>:
> > > > Thu, 13 Mar 2003 08:08:18 -0500
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > > Anyone:
> > > > > 
> > > > > Please explain why, as soon as I apply a CSS tag to a page, the
> > > > > line spacing looks like its TRIPLE spaced.  I spent hours trying
> > > > > variations on line-height and padding and margins, to no avail. 
> > > > > Table elements become huge, and ordinary text has a huge space
> > > > > before the next tagged text.
> > > > > 
> > > > > I even copied CSS code from online sites, replacing my own
> > > > > completely, with SAME RESULTS.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Does my declaration affect this:
> > > > > <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0//EN">
> > > > > 
> > > > > Thanks!
> > > > > 
> > > > > Tom
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