Can someone please help :)

[nickadocker]

Hi everyone!
As soon as I close a form tag I’m working on by typing: </form>, a gap suddenly appears underneath the table that the <form> code is in. This is only happening in Internet Explorer, but it’s screwing up my whole layout of my website. Why is this happening? How do I get rid of that stupid gap? It works perfect in Firefox, but in IE it acts retarded! Any advice would be extremely great because I’m stumped!

Thanks!

[Ryan Fait]

Try adding the following to your CSS:

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form {
    margin: 0;
    padding: 0;
}

[Powderhound]

how can you know that will fix it without the link to the page or any of the code.

[Ryan Fait]

I'm fluent in CSS. Unless there is some unlikely IE bug I'm unaware of, those two properties will take care of any default formatting.

[spinal007]

IE adds margin to forms by default....
for future reference, always start your styles sheets with:
*{ margin:0px; padding:0px; }

that will clear browser's default margin/padding settings so you only get your own...

[nickadocker]

It’s awesome! I used the code that you said to use and every thing works perfect! Thank you so much for your help! I only post questions when it’s really important and I really need an answer. I was in a big time crunch and you really helped me a lot. Thank you very, very much!

[mreine]

Originally Posted by spinal007

IE adds margin to forms by default....
for future reference, always start your styles sheets with:
*{ margin:0px; padding:0px; }

that will clear browser's default margin/padding settings so you only get your own...

Yeah, it clears the margins and padding for EVERYTHING!! so it can actually be quite annoying and add a lot of bloated code by having to redefine a lot of margins and paddings that would otherwise be standard.

Just wanted to give a heads up to anyone that may not be aware of the after effects of using that idea.

[spinal007]

good point to make...

I prefer to know exactly how much padding/margin everything has.
As for the bloated code, it can't take more than 5 lines or so to define exactly how much padding/margin you want for your tags.

at the end of the day, we all have different coding styles and it comes down to preference...

[moojoo]

I love you guys.