Hi, I'm baffled by some incorrect table cell positioning at http://tinyurl.com/yqdlw - I wonder if you can help...

At the foot of the "Arts & Media" cell, which borders the "Sport" cell beneath it, there is a gap that is too large; there is too much white space...

The "Sport" header - and the two neighbouring cells to the left - should be a little higher, closer to the bottom of the last entry in the "Arts & Media" cell.

I *am* using lots of styles stuff but, whatever I do with them, I just can't seem to shrink that gap, to close that white space. Or at least I can't using IE6.

Any suggestions please??

I don't know what you created this page in but it looks like there are no quotes around many of the table attributes

ie: you have vAlign=top instead of valign='top'

I don't know if this is the problem but I have had issues with this in the past. So I would check that first.

It looks fine in Mozilla Firefox...but I see what you mean about the "gap" in IE.

It could possibly be the <H3> tags used in the column headers. I've had problems when putting <H#> and <P> tags in table cells. IE likes to add the top margin to these...

One possible thing you could try is to remove the <H3></H3> tags and use a SPAN tag instead.

<SPAN CLASS="title">Sport</SPAN>

See if that removes the extra whitespace above.

Or...edit your stylesheet to remove the top margins from your <H3> tags...

margin-top: 0px;

Originally Posted by prissed

One possible thing you could try is to remove the <H3></H3> tags and use a SPAN tag instead.

That doesn't seem to work.

Or...edit your stylesheet to remove the top margins from your <H3> tags...

margin-top: 0px;

Nope, that either.
My <H3>s are already defined in the stylesheet as having margin:0px and padding:0px.

Just to clarify; the "Arts & Media" column and the "Sports" column are two different cells, as are the other subjects. I need to bring "Business" and "Politics" closer to the upper row in addition to "Sport".

Originally Posted by cmonkey

I don't know what you created this page in but it looks like there are no quotes around many of the table attributes. I would check that first.

Hmm... I've added double quotes to all table alignments, to no effect

Baffled. And I expected it would work okay in Mozilla but not IE, too.

*bump*