HTML - Inline Css

In a nutshell:
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The following <li> tags are inline-blocks. Why does removing the closing <li> tags fix the whitespace issue?

Code:

	<li>Item one</li>
	<li>Item two</li>
	<li>Item three</li>

Versus...

Code:

	<li>Item one
	<li>Item two
	<li>Item three

The context of this question:
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From:
CSS display: inline-Block: Why It Rocks, And Why It Sucks

The above post is about using inline-block instead of float to position <li> elements, which is useful for making navigation bars.

There is one drawback to using inline-block:
(You can copy and paste the first piece of code below to see what I'm talking about.)
If you restrict the <ul> to a particular width, your navbar won't display correctly, which has something to do with hitting the RETURN key between your lines of code (whitespace issues?). See below:

This works fine because there we didn't hit RETURN to create a line break between each list.
<li>Item One</li><li>Item Two</li>

Here, we hit RETURN to put each list on a separate line and now the code doesn't display properly. The first piece of code below illustrates this problem.
<li>Item One</li>
<li>Item Two</li>

The second piece of code solves this problem by using comments to remove the whitespace.

The third piece of code solves this problem by removing the closing <li> tags. My question is, how does removing closing tags change anything? Are there any issues I should be aware of if I use this solution? Are there other contexts where I can apply a similar technique?




Code:

<style type="text/css">

	ul#display-inline-block-example,
	ul#display-inline-block-example li {

		margin: 0;
		padding: 0;
	}

	ul#display-inline-block-example {
		width: 300px;
		border: 1px solid #000;
	}

	ul#display-inline-block-example li {
		display: inline-block;
		width: 100px;
		min-height: 100px;
		background: #ccc;
		vertical-align: top;

	}
</style>

<ul id="display-inline-block-example">
	<li>Item one</li>
	<li>Item two</li>
	<li>Item three</li>
</ul>

Code:

<style type="text/css">

	ul#display-inline-block-example,
	ul#display-inline-block-example li {

		margin: 0;
		padding: 0;
	}

	ul#display-inline-block-example {
		width: 300px;
		border: 1px solid #000;
	}

	ul#display-inline-block-example li {
		display: inline-block;
		width: 100px;
		min-height: 100px;
		background: #ccc;
		vertical-align: top;

	}
</style>

<ul id="display-inline-block-example">
	<li>Item one<!--
	--><li>Item two</li><!--
	--><li>Item three</li>
</ul>

Code:

<style type="text/css">

	ul#display-inline-block-example,
	ul#display-inline-block-example li {

		margin: 0;
		padding: 0;
	}

	ul#display-inline-block-example {
		width: 300px;
		border: 1px solid #000;
	}

	ul#display-inline-block-example li {
		display: inline-block;
		width: 100px;
		min-height: 100px;
		background: #ccc;
		vertical-align: top;

	}
</style>

<ul id="display-inline-block-example">
	<li>Item one
	<li>Item two
	<li>Item three
</ul>

Well, i'm not sure i'm gonna use this snippet but i can think of plenty reasons why i might:
Code:

<h4 style="display:<?php print $display; ?>">

It won't validate because, quote:
"character "<" is the first character of a delimiter but occurred as data."

Maybe i've been staring at it too long but i don't see the difference from any other php statement, which the validator should simply not parse.

??

Thanks,
Joey

I have display:inline and its adding in two drop boxes that it shouldnt. After the drop boxes it then stops the inline. Im new to css, have only been trying it for the past couple of days. The two drop down boxes are suppose to be on the left, under the links at the top. Can someone explain to me why inline stops where it does? Thanks. Oh yeah, the links under <li> I know their to the wrong address's.

body {
font-family:georgia,'times new roman',times,serif;
color:#BD0A70;
background-color:#F2F2F2;
}
ul.navbar {
list-style-type: none;
padding:0;
width:32em;
float:left;
}
ul.navbar li {
display:inline;
font-size:125%;
background-color:#007BA7;
margin:.10em;
}
ul.navbar a,ul.navbar a:visited {
color:#ffffff;
text-decoration:none;
}
ul.navbar a:hover {
background:#00008B;
}
form.jump {
/* position: absolute; */
float: left;
}
div.floatright {
/* position: absolute; */
float: right;
}
h1 {
clear:both;
font-family:helvetica,geneva,arial,SunSans-Regular,sans-serif;
}



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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN">
<html>
<head>
<title>My first styled page</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="mystyle.css">
</head>

<body>
<a charset="ISO-8859-1">

<!-- Site navigation menu -->

<ul class="navbar">
<li><a href="index.html">Change email</a>
<li><a href="musings.html">Change Password</a>
<li><a href="town.html">F.A.Q.</a>
<li><a href="town.html">Contact</a>
<li><a href="links.html">Log out</a>
<li>
</li>
</ul>
<form class="jump" action="/reredirect.php" align="left" method="post">
<input type ="text" name="userpage" size="17" value="Jump to user page" onFocus="this.value=''">
<img src="cooltext406694699.png" align="absbottom" onmouseover="this.src='cooltext406694699MouseOver.png';" onmouseout="this.src='cooltext406694699.png';" input type="submit" value="Submit" name="submit"></img>
</form>

<div class="floatright">
<script type="text/javascript"><!--
/* 234x60, created 11/22/08 */
google_ad_slot = "0343255875";
google_ad_width = 234;
google_ad_height = 60;
//-->
</script>
<script type="text/javascript"
src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js">
</script>
</div>

<!-- Main content -->

<table>
<tr>
<td>
<form method="post" action="/redirect.php" name="event">
<select name="select" class="breakinline" onChange="this.form.submit()">
<OPTION SELECTED>Select friend
<OPTION value="/users/sharon">name1
<OPTION value="/users/carrie">name2
<OPTION value="/users/capy">name3
<OPTION value="/users/charla">name4
</SELECT>

</FORM>
<td>
<form id="myeventz" method="post" action="/changeevent.php" name="myevent">
<select name="myevent" class="tabletxt" onChange="this.form.submit()">
<OPTION SELECTED=>12/25 Christmas</option>
<OPTION value="0101 Event One">01/01 Event one
<OPTION value=" 0202Eventtwo">Remove this event
<OPTION value=" ">Add a new event
</SELECT>
</FORM>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<p>Select item's to remove</p>

Which doctype doesn't allow for inline? Right now every line break in my code, IE creates a space in the tables. How do I get rid of this?

Thanks,

Alec

I'd like to open an inline frame on my site. I've got the code this far; however I cannot find out how to finish it. I need to knowhow to get it to open at a certain spot on the page. So like an example would be I want it to open at spot x on a page. How would I code this to open it at that spot?

Code:

<html>
<body>

<iframe src="default.asp"
width=125px
height=125px></iframe>


</body>
</html>