OK, I have never run across this before, and I'm at the end of my wits, so i'd love to get some more opinions

Problem: strange text movement in a table cell
Browser: Macintosh IE 5.2

Link:

Look at the left menu column in Mac IE 5.2. there's a huge gap after "REFERRING PATIENTS TO"

There's no reason in the html for that gap. The REALLY strange thing is, when you resize the browser, the gap widens... all of the text below just goes down, down, down. no matter how you resize the browser, in any direction, smaller, larger, etc. just MOVE the drag handle and everything underneath "REFERRING PATIENTS TO" goes down farther and farther, never to return.

Has anyone seen this? what should I do? I've tried a bunch of different ways to format the same text, with no change. It's basically a bunch of spans wrapping inside a table cell.

See this Mac screenshot of the problem area:

FYI, I have tried taking out all of the spans... that way it's just bare text floating in the holder table cell... same result.

Cathode,

I'm just throwing some ideas around here -- I'm sure you've already checked most of these....

1. Does the text "REFERRING PATIENTS TO" belong to a tag or structure (e.g., div) that has a CSS class? If so, check to be sure it doesn't have a large bottom-margin or bottom-padding value.

2. Does the rest of the text on that side belong to a div attributed to a CSS class that has a large top-margin or top-padding?

3. Does the parent structure (e.g., div) have any unusual attributes (e.g., valian, etc)?

If I think of anything else, I'll come back... I'm just brainstorming at the moment.

Think about posting a link to that HTML so the forum viewers can see it for themselves. I know we have a few Mac users around here.

Kyrnt

Thanks, here's the link:
and here's the css:

I just took out the vert-align: top; out of the css classes, and Added a doctype (html transitional) to the index file.

get some Jscript code to find the OS and browser if you like

if(OS == 'MAC')

ok so lift up the space
<div id="lift" style="margin-top: -30px"></div>

or how ever bug the space may be.


Ibbo

looks like the doctype tage fixed it!