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    A minor CSS dilemma

    I'm 99% of the way to solving some extra white space around a grid displayed on an A5W page. I've got an extra 4 pixels of padding (4 pixels via photoshop, looks like 2 pixels times two via firebug).

    Using firebug to follow the trail -

    Higher up the page I have cellpadding = "0". OK good.

    Then in the CSS that's in play, called PlanImages, firebug is saying cellpadding = 2px, but in my CSS file for PlanImages I have no listing for cellpadding, and don't even find anything with 2px padding. I looked at the specific section firebug reports as well as beginning to end.

    Question 1 - is there some other way that cellpadding = 2 px can be triggered, other than the CSS referenced above it as listed by firebug (Chrome, IE etc - all say same btw)?

    Question 2 - can I/should I add a line cellpadding = 0px to my PlanImages CSS, and if so, what would be the syntax?

    I'm still not quite "there" on when to put a dot in front of something, order in the CSS file, etc - and not finding anything in W3Schools that addresses it specifically enough to make me sure I understand. And - I'm aware that CSS changes can have surprising effects downstream that I might not even see right away - so I'm a little bit chicken to just keeping trying edits. I see already that I've overdone it on this one and it's affecting my tabs on the linked page.





    http://www.afhp.co/testwithfilter-try2.a5w

    Thanks much to anybody who even thinks about answering!
    Wendy Welton
    Architect
    past & future Alphaholic - deliberately falling off the wagon!

    http://www.artformhomeplans.com/
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    Re: A minor CSS dilemma

    Solved some of it - just put padding = 0px in the table in the A5W page - probably not "right", but it works.



    I realized I still have a really large white space under, but kinda giving up on that for now. It's not the CSS. It doesn't respond to even an explicity height in the table header - looks like it's some kind of extra blank fictional rows in the grid. I can tell I've reached the limits of what I can figure out myself without really screwing things up.

    I'm going get a little help from my tutor next week - will report back on what we figure out, so anybody else trying to do "full bleed" images from grids won't have to go on this hunting expedition!
    Wendy Welton
    Architect
    past & future Alphaholic - deliberately falling off the wagon!

    http://www.artformhomeplans.com/

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      Re: A minor CSS dilemma

      And I lied, I can't let a little white space kick my butt that easily. I couldn't concentrate on my other work until I ran this to ground - not solved, but I did find the source...

      The Master Template in the grid creates it's own table. The solution is beyond my grasp, but I know that's where it lies.

      I know it's that Master Template because when I take all table definition away from there, I get lots of other stuff I don't want - but no extra white space. So - wrong result, but proof of theory - at least it looks that way to me.



      And - restore table definition, even with adding cellpadding = 0px - still get extra space, still get Firebug reporting that something is enacting cellpadding = 2px.

      So - there's either some minimum height for a table, or it's that cellpadding = 2px multiplied across each end of row.

      I'm probably the only person on the planet trying to do this, so I don't really think somebody here will have the answer. But, it can't hurt to try, but this is probably just "thanks for listening"!
      Wendy Welton
      Architect
      past & future Alphaholic - deliberately falling off the wagon!

      http://www.artformhomeplans.com/

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        Re: A minor CSS dilemma

        Ha! She solved it!

        There was a minimun_height hiding higher up my CSS, that WAS NOT listing out on firebug, except one lone time....

        And - in the grid - divs in the Master Template.



        Done.
        Wendy Welton
        Architect
        past & future Alphaholic - deliberately falling off the wagon!

        http://www.artformhomeplans.com/

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