This is not working on my IE:
<table style="padding:5px">...</table>
however it works on Opera.
Is there a workaround?
The earlier CSS specs (which IE6 follows -- and I use the word "follows" loosely) are not clear about what padding defined on a table should even mean. IE6, naturally, decided to interpret this differently than every other browser, by ignoring the padding. Other browsers decided to render it by adding spacing between the table border and the outermost cells, without affecting the spacing inside cells, or between internal cells. By the time IE7 came out, the specs had cleared up to work like the other browsers, but IE6 still has the problem, where it simply ignores the padding.
The best solution is to avoid putting padding on your table, but instead surrounding it with a div, and putting the padding there.
<div style="padding: 5px;">
<table...>
</table>
</div>
Of course, if what you want is cell spacing or cell padding (as opposed to just padding on the table), then you should use the cellspacing or cellpadding attributes (even if you don't want these, you at least need cellspacing="0" to avoid another separate issue with IE6 table rendering).
Also, the inline styles here are for demo purposes; using css classes is generally considered better practice.
Did you try using <table cellpadding="5">? IE has problems with some css styling.
Also your syntax is wrong you forgot a semi-colon.
I'd venture to guess something else is wrong in your code.
Padding works fine in IE:
http://jsbin.com/ewuho4/
If you want to pad the cells then use cellpading attribure (cellpadding="X") if you want to padd a table, then that is awkward considering it's structure, I recommend that you put a margin if you want some space between it and the rest of stuff. Padding does not work on IE an even though I am not a fan of IE I do not blame it for that
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As title states, I have a problem with extra space in table cell, here is and example:
http://jsfiddle.net/pzcMH/60/ (go here http://jsfiddle.net/pzcMH/60/show/ if you want to see html page directly). You can see that table cell under 'footer wrapper' row is higher than 'center_wrapper' table (in IE6 and IE7) and I want it to be same height, like it is in all modern browsers.
After googling, I tried:
adding cellspacing=0 and cellpadding=0
removing extra new lines and spaces
adding padding and margins with 0px
...
and nothing helped.
Off topic:
Someone will probably say that I shouldn't make layout, like in 2001, but I don't see a way to solve a problem with with extra wide elements not fitting in page (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9632505/fixed-layout-wide-content-tables) without table and it seems that I will manage to implement sticky footer with tables.
Another interesting bug of IE6/7 is that if I change 'footer_wrapper' row id to class (and modify css accordingly, of course) it stops working. Any ideas why?
thanks.
In my website, there are lots of buttons. When viewing in Chrome, the button width just fit on the dynamic button text, but in IE, I can see extra padding are produced on both left and right...
Would there be any CSS rule that can allow me to take away these padding? Thanks.
Might be a bit late, but when I searched SO for the very same problem today I found this question. Obviously, this is no real padding (in a sense that it cannot be turned off by padding:0px), but rather one of those weird oddities that we all love so much about IE. (Note how the false padding scales with button text length O_o). Fortunately, there is a simple solution to it, as described here.
Basically you only add overflow:visible; to the button (I did not need the extra width:auto;as described there). Don't ask - it's absolutely not what you'd have thought this should do, but well... It's IE Land and the rules are different over there. Just note that this apparently does not work when your buttons are inside a table cell.
I guess the CSS reset might have solved this, because someone already included this in some global declaration. Just adding this answer to shed some more light on the how and why.
Never give up, people - our children will see a world without IE quirks... One can hope.
You can use reset css as it avoids browser inconsistencies.
Please refer http://sixrevisions.com/css/css-tips/css-tip-1-resetting-your-styles-with-css-reset/
Visit http://www.cssreset.com/scripts/html5-doctor-css-reset-stylesheet/ for reset.css
Managed to avoid extra spacing in IE with extra statement display:block; in CSS like so:
.menu button{
display:block;
width:100%;
padding:0;
}
Note that I didn't use width:auto as it wasn't an option in my case - buttons are empty, width is taken from parent div.
I've noticed that some browsers have trouble with margins, especially when an element is floated. For example, this website I'm doing looks fine in Firefox, but IE7 screws up the margins completely it seems. I also testet it on several Linux browsers as well and some of the make similar mistakes.
The site is
http://w3box.com/mat
This looks fine in FF3.0 as far as I can tell. Haven't seen it in FF2 yet, or IE6.
Why does this happen? Is it because I've got floated DIVs with specified margins?
Are there some things I should avoid or should have done differently?
Edit: So it looks like my tags was the source of the screwup.
I'd placed images in the that was not defined in the CSS and that had floats on them, combined with margins. These screwed up everything and I have to redo these.
Also, some stuff happened when I used XHTML Strict instead :)
Thanx everyone! I'll try to fix this on my own :)
I disagree with using a library if you want to learn about CSS part of the curve unfortunately is learning about the ways different browsers react to CSS. I wouldn't even suggest using a reset stylesheet. If you are going to be doing this a lot learn how CSS works. If you use a library or a set stylesheet which you don't understand how will you fix it when it breaks.
Marging are not bad, but IE has some troubles with the margins of float elements. While there are many recipes for fixing, I believe that in your case you may use absolute positioning instead of float+margins (you don't really need "float" behavior when the image is wrapped by text)
There is nothing wrong with using margins.
Old versions of IE have one bug and that alone isn't nearly enough of a reason to avoid using one of the core layout features of CSS. Specifically, this bug occurs in IE when you float an object and give it a margin in the same direction, e.g.:
.whatever {
float: right;
margin-right: 5px;
}
You can deal with this a number of ways, depending on your layout. One way would be to add another div around your box and use padding on that to replicate the same space a margin would.
I'd suggest using some form of CSS Framework (Blueprint CSS, 960 Grid, etc) as they have a number of margin, padding and other common HTML element resets. You should find cross browser development is easier using a framework.
Different browsers have different ways to handle box model. Most of the time the sites which are displayed well in FF, Chrome or IE8 can have problems in IE6 and 7.
To workaround this problem you can try to set all the default margin and padding to 0 (and adjust them as needed on specific elements):
*{ margin:0px; padding: 0px; } //Simplest rule...
To see more on CSS reset you can look at: http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/css/reset/
And then apply different styles for IE7 and 6 with conditional comments.
As mentioned on other answers it's to do with IE's interpretation of the box model.
Whenever anything is floated IE tends to double the margins specified. This can be fixed with an extra stylesheet for IE using conditional comments.
See also: http://www.positioniseverything.net/explorer/doubled-margin.html
I know this kind of question must get asked all the time but I haven't found a solution for my problem yet.
Using FF, Opera and the IE that is on Windows 7 (can't remember what it is), the page looks exactly as it should, but using IE7 on Windows Vista, there is a gap between my navigation bar and the rest of the page which frankly makes it look stupid, and the illusion of tabbed pages is lost.
I have a reset stylesheet to reset all the elements to have no padding, margins etc and FF, Opera and the IE on Windows 7 produce the page as they should, it's only IE7 (and I'm guessing earlier versions of IE) that don't.
Here are 2 screenshots showing the problem, the first from FF/Opera/IE on Windows 7:
This one is from IE7 on Windows Vista:
alt text http://img43.imageshack.us/img43/7558/figarosiegap.jpg
And here is a link to the actual website in question: Figaro's Ristorante
Any ideas anyone?
Thanks for your time.
I've run into this problem a bazillion times. Add this to your CSS:
#header img { vertical-align: bottom }
There's a funny bug in IE up to and including version 7 where it will treat some whitespace (an empty text node, really) as a real text node, and align the image as if there was text in the element as well.
Another option would be to declare the image as a block level element:
#header img { display: block }
This CSS is safe to add to your global file, it will not interfere with how other browsers render the page.
The IE on windows 7 is IE8
I've taken a look at it using IE7, and the gap appears to be because of the image in the 'header' div. If you look at it with a tool like IE Developer toolbar you can see the boundaries around the objects on the page.
Sorry i cant paste an image but i'll try to describe it:
there is a #text element after the image which is being forced onto a new line by IE7.
if you change the style on the img to include
float: left;
This fixes the problem for me.
Hope this helps!
(Let me know if you need more clarity)
The gap is part of the text line where the menu image is, because the image is an inline element so it's placed on the baseline of the text line. The gap is the distance from the baseline of the text to the bottom edge of the line, i.e. the space used by hanging characters like 'g' and 'j'.
Simply adding display:block; to the style of the image solves the problem. It turns the image element from an inline element to a block element so that it's not placed on a base line of the text but as a separate element.
I've run into this problem a thousand times, and finally, after using overly complicated fix after fix, the answer is simple! (At least when <img>'s are involved.) In the div that is producing a gap under it, add 'overflow: hidden;' to its css; you will need to set its height, of course. So, if your div is 39px high, this will keep it at 39px high, ignoring the extra whitespace IE loves to put under <img>s
Hope it helps.
There's not much useful information (html or pictures that work) in this question. So, here's a random guess.
I've had situations where a line-break or spaces between elements can cause vertical space between elements. Try placing the closing and opening tags immediately next to each other and see if this corrects the issue.
Different browsers all have different default margins and padding. In this case, I'm guessing IE7s defaults are throwing you off. There are two general solutions to the problem. You can set your own margin and padding at the html, body level:
html, body {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}
or you can use IE conditional comments to load sepearte stylesheets for different versions of IE. Last I checked, the conditional comments were considered a better solution because browser defaults do provide some usefulness.
Jason is correct that it's a bug in how IE handles whitespace in the html... treating it as a text node. Though I don't think it's unique to images. I believe I've seen this behavior with divs as well. As a global change you may try applying vertical-align:bottom to both images and divs. Though I don't know what mayhem that may produce.
But the quick and dirty fix is to just remove the whitespace. Kinda sucks, but change stuff like this:
<img src="blah" alt="" width="5" height="5" />
<div>blorg</div>
To this:
<img src="blah" alt="" width="5" height="5"
/><div>blorg</div>
I warned that this is quick and dirty. But it works.
I have the following textarea in a table:
<table width="300"><tr><td>
<textarea style="width:100%">
longstringlongstringlongstringlongstringlongstringlongstringlongstringlongstringlongstringlongstringlongstringlongstringlongstring
</textarea>
</td></tr></table>
With a long string in the textarea, the textarea stretches out to accommodate it in one line in IE7, but retains its 300px width in other browsers.
Any ideas as to how to fix this in IE?
Apply the width to the td, not the table.
EDIT: #Emmett - the width could just as easily be applied via CSS.
td {
width: 300px;
}
produces the desired result. Or, if you're using jQuery, you could add the width through script:
$('textarea[width=100%]').parent('td').css('width', '300px');
Point being, there's more than one way to apply a width to a table cell, if development constraints prevent you from applying it directly.
#Peter Meyer, Jim Robert
I tried different overflow values, to no avail.
Experimenting with different values for the wrap attribute and the word-wrap style also wasn't fruitful.
EDIT:
#dansays, seanb
Due to some awkward application-specific constraints, the width can only be applied to the table.
#travis
Setting style="word-break:break-all;" sort of worked! It still wraps differently in IE7 and FF. I'll accept this answer if nothing better comes up.
Another hacky option, but the only option that works for me - none of the other suggestions on this page do - is to wrap the textarea in a single cell table with a fixed table layout.
<table style="width:100%;table-layout:fixed"><tr><td>
<textarea style="width:100%">longstringlongstringlongstringlongstringlongstringlongstringlongstringlongstringlongstringlongstringlongstringlongstringlongstring</textarea>
</td></tr></table>
Another very hacky option, if you are stuck with a lot of constraints, but know what the surrounding dom will look like:
style="width:100%;width:expression(this.parentNode.parentNode.parentNode.parentNode.width +'px')"
not pretty, but does work in IE7.
Using jquery or similar would be a much neater solution, but it depends on the other constraints you have.
did you try...
overflow: hidden;
??
I'm not sure if it should be in the table of the textarea... experiment a bit
IE also supports the word-break CSS 3 property.
The overflow property is the way to go. In particular, if you want the extra text to be ignored, you can use "overflow:hidden" as a css property on the text.
In general, when a browser has an unbreakable object, such as a long string without spaces, it can have a conflict between various size constraints - those of the string (long) vs its container (short). If you see different behavior in different browsers, they are just resolving this conflict differently.
By the way, there is a nice trick available for long strings - the <wbr> tag. If your browser sees longstringlongstring, then it will try to fit it in the container as a single, unbroken string -- but if it can't fit, it will break that string in half at the wbr. It's basically a break point with a implicit request to not break there, if possible (sort of like a hyphen in printed texts). By the way, it's a little buggy in some versions of Safari and Opera - check out this quirksmode page for more.
I've run into this problem before. It's related to how HTML parses table and cell widths.
You're fine setting 300 as a width as long as the contents of the element can never exceed that (setting a div with a definite width inside and an overflow rule is my favorite way).
But absent a solution like the above, the minute ANY element pushes you past that width, all bets are off. The element becomes as wide as it has to to accommodate the contents.
Additional tip - encase your width values in whatever set of quotes will nest the value properly (<table width='300'). If someone comes along and changes it to a %, it will ignore the %, otherwise.
Unfortunately, you're always going to have trouble breaking strings that do not have 'natural' breaks in IE, unless you can do something to break them up via code.
For solve this issue you use space in your text,and you too use this code
overflow:hidden
Give the width in pixels.this should work properly
or, how about:
overflow: scroll;
Edit:
I actually tested this. I think the behavior is such because the width is on the table, which I believe (I have nothing to back this up) I read long ago that the table width is a suggested width, but can be expanded to accommodate its content. Not sure. I know if you use a <DIV> rather than a table, it works. Additionally, if you apply the 300 pixel width to the containing <TD> element as opposed to the <TABLE> element, it works as well. Also, the overflow: scroll does nothing! :P
Nice, funky IE behavior, for sure!
Best thing I could find to make it work, a little hacky:
wrap textarea with <div style="width:300px; overflow:auto;">
might want to play around with the overflow value