HTML - Phantom Left Margin
The layout of my page, like that of many pages, consists of a bunch of divs inside divs. Whenever I specify the width or height of a div, there appears a space to its left, three pixels wide. This gap also appears when I substitute a standard image (img) for a div.
Some of these divs are floated left; others are not. In the latter case, floating left actually gets rid of the space, but causes other problems as I don't really want those ones floated left. Setting the borders, margins, or padding to zero (or a negative number) does not affect the 3px gap. I am using IE7. Similar TutorialsHi, Do you know the answer to this question? (I wasted a lot of time trying figure out this problem, before finally giving up.) How do I get the book cover image to display with no left margin, while preserving the 5px right margin? It displays with no left margin in my WYSIWYG editor. But, it displays with a 5px left margin in IE and Firefox. 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I have the bg centered and would like the divs to be also, without using the margin-left tag since it will only look centered on some screens. Thank you very much for your assistance! www.rkgrant.co.cc Okay I know IE 7 problems are nothing new but being that I am fairly new at this and I am reading everything I can and I am still not catching up with how to correct it. I have the website up on a test server at http://www.vsncom.com/sterling I am working on a mac and the site works fine on IE 5.2 for mac and any other browser. However, IE7 causes a huge shift in the whole page to the left. And a few other elements are slightly shifted as well. The bottom nav is up a little higher than it belongs. The three pictures on the left are shifted further right. And that is all that I get shown when I capture the screen from net render and such. (Please look at attached picture to see what IE7 gives me) So, im not sure what else may be going on. If I can get the whole page to come back to the left then I can address the other issues maybe. But does anyone have any ideas how to do this. Please. I appreciate the help. I have been trying to figure this out for a week now and reading everything I can find online and trying anything I can think of so please save me. Matt I've been having problems lately with my navigation bar. For some reason it adds a huge, annoying margin on the left of each button that makes it 1. Hard for the navigation buttons with more than one word in them to fit correctly and 2. Looks really bad. I attached a screenshot and my code. CSS HTML Code: .navContainer { background: #336600; margin: 0.5em; padding: 0; float: left; width: 15%; height: 18em; } ul#nav { list-style-type: none; } ul#nav li a { background-color: #A35200; color: #fff; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 19px; padding: 0.3em 2em 0.3em 2em; text-decoration: none; border: 2px solid #824200; border-style: inset; display: block; margin-top: 1em; text-align: left; } ul#nav li a:hover { background-color: #8F8F00; color: #000; border-style: outset; } HTML HTML Code: <div class="navContainer"> <ul id="nav"> <li><a href="#" style="margin-top: none;">Home</a></li> <li><a href="images.html">Images</a></li> <li><a href="contact.html">Contact Us</a></li> </ul> </div> Aloha!~ I have (what is probably) a very simple problem. On my site at www.stairworks.ca No matter what I seem to do, I keep getting this phantom 'space' between the pictures for 'gallery' and 'profile' I don't see what can be the cause of it in HTML, and if I try just removing it in WYSIWYG, it just reappears when I go to preview. Any ideas? (Ps. I didn't write the site, I just wanted to update it) So Here is my situation: I have been fighting to update my meta tags. But then I caught something funny? Check the meta tags under these two addresses: www.lightingbryan.com << this is the correct code www.lightingbryan.com/index.html << this is the wrong code look at the top. the index.html has some meta tags that I seem to have included somewhere. The main issues is isnt those two address the same page? When I go into DW I see the www.lightingbryan.com code. how do I get rid of this phantom code. PS (I manually erased all meta tags from the .com site then manually added the right codes.) Also The reason this bothers me is when I click a link from in the site I get taken back to the .html site. It seems google is using my .html meta tags which I do not want PLEASE HELP! Hi all, I'm throwing together a website for a client and am relatively new to contact forms. I managed to get one working and somewhat styled decently, but for some reason the submit button isnt showing up when I upload it, even though it shows up fine when i preview it from my local folder. This happens in both IE and Firefox. and yes, i have uploaded the button graphic as well. heres the code for the button: <INPUT TYPE="image" SRC="images/submit.gif" HEIGHT="33" WIDTH="74" BORDER="0" ALT="Send"> you can view the page live he blue 2 any help would be greatly appreciated! Some really weird situation: Please look at this page here. Scroll down to the footer. You will see a GIF image right? In alle browsers BUT firefox, this displays fine.. in firefox its cancelled out for some vague reason. Thats weird right, but the weirdest thing is that only in firefox (when looked to at firebug) there is something i only can describe as a "phantom class" Its only visible in firefox, and it has a weird name " ednfltlufdujmlipsfpd" ... so, what the pancakes is going on? Hello, what is the coding for affecting the margins in HTML? Also, how can I change the color of the margins? (To make it different than the background) Edit: For example, I like the way gamespot.com is set up whereas there is a permanent left and right margin. When you adjust the size of the window from right to left, the whole webpage doesn't get smaller or word wrap, it just shrinks the margins. If that is actually something different, please explain. Thank you. I have a historical website that I'm going to rebuild. There are a lot of dates and unfamiliar terms. There are a lot of places where the text will say something like, "on the 9th so-and-so did such-and-such..." Using float:right, I have a little box that says "Jun 9, 1788." (I would like to do the same thing on the left with short definitions) I would like to scoot that little box over into the margin. I tried position:relative; left:90px, and that moved it over into the margin, but it still wrapped the text around the blank space it left. My thinking is that they'll be less distracting for people who don't care about the exact date or what the meaning of breaming is. I'm having problems getting my site to render correctly in internet explorer 7. It seems to ignore the margin-top, I want a gap at the top of the page. Also the absolute bar along the top seems to get moved to the right. This is my site: http://suffolkcottage.x10.bz/ Here is the css for the container on the page, where most of the content is inside. #container { width:900px; margin: 30px auto 0px auto!important; margin: 30px auto 0px auto; background-color:#FFFFFF; background:#ffffff url('grad.png') repeat-x bottom; border:1px solid #e8e8e8; z-index:100; } Any help would be appreciated Hi, Someone developed an html newsletter for one of my clients, but when I uploaded it to the website, the right margin gets cut off. This is the link: http://www.eastpointehealthandfitnes...r-2010/?&t=449 How can I fix that? I don't really know much HTML, so I'll appreciate very specific feedback on what I need to change. Any help will be much appreciated! Regards, Reem Hey, This has been bugging me for some time and I'm rubbish when it comes to borders and margins etc. Could someone tell me how modify the margin (presuming it's a margin) around the edge of the page? If you look at the attached image, you can see that the table isn't touching the edge of the page, and It does the same with images, text etc. Thanks I am having a problem that I can not figure out why this is happening. I have two divs one named content and one named welcome. The welcome div is nested inside the content div. Whenever I change the margin top for the welcome div it also changes the margin top of the content div it is nested in. How can I keep it where the content div is fixed and doesn't move no matter where I set the margin top for the welcome div? Here is the HTML.... Code: <div id="content"> <div class="welcome"> <p> Coming Soon, a new and improved Texas Camping Forum for Fall 2008!!!<br> Bookmark us and check back often....</p> </div> </div> Here is the CSS... Code: #content { margin: 5px 0 0 140px; text-align: center; width: 630px; border-left: 1px solid #F4F4F4; } .welcome { margin-top: 25px; } Here is the link to the site.... http://development.mesquitechristmas.com/index.html Any ideas or suggestions as why this is happening? -Thanks So, I'm new to HTML/CSS, and I just started a new website... I have a div inside of a div, 'cen' inside of 'tu', but when I try to add a top margin to cen, instead of adding the margin from the top of 'tu', it adds a margin from the bottom of 'top'. I can fix this by adding padding to 'tu' and and reducing its height, but I want to know why the problem exists, as I'm trying to learn. Thanks a lot... Here's the code: <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <title>Austin</title> <style type="text/css"> html, body, h1, h2, h3, img, p, ul, li { margin: 0; padding: 0; } .top { height: 100px; width: 100%; background-color: #0F272B } .tu { height: 350px; width: 100%; background-color: #37648D; } .cen { margin-top: 50px; width: 800px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; position: relative; height: 250px; background-color: #91CED9; } </style> </head> <body> <div class="top"> <h1>Austin</h1> </div> <div class="tu"> <div class="cen"> <h2>This is the website</h2> </div> </div> </body> </html> Greetings! I am back again. I thought I would repost my previous link as my problems now have nothing to do with Image Location. I have successfully placed my inline frame where I want to! Thanks for all the help getting there. Now I have two issues to deal with. I have enclosed photos to illustrate my problems. #1 There is a white line above my Inline frame. I want to get rid of this but cannot find what in the coding is causing it. #2 To the Right of the window there is a white space I also cannot find the code for. I want both of these issues eliminated. I have tried my best to find the code, really I have. Here is my current code and the images which corrospond to my problem. <!doctype html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1"> <title>The works of D.M. Rosemark</title> <style type="text/css" media="screen"> <!-- body { background-color: #ffffff; margin: 0px } #horizon { color: white; background-color: transparent; text-align: center; position: absolute; top: 50%; left: 0px; width: 100%; height: 1px; overflow: visible; visibility: visible; display: block } #wrap {margin: 0px auto; width: 1300px; } iframe.one { width: 600px; height: 375px; border-style:ridge; border-width:10px; border-color:#999999; padding:1px; float: left; display: inline; } //--> </style> </head> <body> <div id="wrap"> <img src="topbanner.jpg" alt="Top Banner" style="width: 1260px;"> <div id="innerwrap"> <img src="leftimage.jpg" style="float: left; width: 325px;"> <iframe class="one" frameborder="0" src="http://www.webmasterworld.com/category10.htm" scrolling="yes"> </iframe> <img src="rightimage.jpg" style="float: left; display: inline; width: 325px; "></div> <img src="bottombanner.jpg" alt="Bottom Banner" style="width: 1260px;"></div> </body> </html> OK guys I'm having a 'no brain day'. Could someone please take a look at http://www.telfordsteamrailway.co.uk...ture/usage.php Near the bottom is a yellow box. - why is there a yellow border / margin under the image? heres the code - which validates Code: <div style="padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px; border:0px; background-color:yellow;"> <img style="padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px; border: 0px; background-color: green;" src="http://www.meteogroup.co.uk/meteo/hptool/logo_meteogroup.png" alt="" width="120px" height="32px" /> </div> I havent got much hair left to tear out. Allan I inserted a SWF inside a table and it should fit perfectly. However, the table streches a bit and makes the background repeat for a couple of pixels which totally screws the layout. Here is my website: http://jlcq.uuuq.com/jl.html I'm talking about the two horizontal lines on each side of the banner. It looks like the SWF has some kind of margin. How can i delete it so it fits perfectly? If you have the time take a look at my code or download the site and find a way to modify the code so that it fits. Note that the problem also occurs if I insert an image in the same spot instead of a SWF. Thanks! Hey so I guess there are going to be quite a few groans from some people, but I need help with the HTML Coding on my band's MySpace... I am rubbish at this whole code business so I bow down to anyone who can help me with a few things... Firstly, take a look at the page... www.myspace.com/sevendayslater OK, I've got it looking almost how I want it, but there are a few things that are annoying the hell out of me... 1) The band logo is kind of right-aligned... the code says it is "left" but it looks weird.. 2) I want the music player / gig listing / blog entry to be in line with where it says Biography... 3) The mailing list thingy, does anyone know how to make it the same size as everything else in it's column?? Also can the background be black and not transparent?? If anyone can help I would hugely appreciative!?! |