CSS + IE + tired head. Lots of extra space in Internet Explorer but not Firefox [Archive]

apt

12-09-2007, 03:48 AM

ATTENTION: I've solved the problem. I'm an idiot. I was just missing a closing tag for one of my spans.

I am sure that, like last time I had a problem with my about page (umm... yesterday), I just need a set a new eyes. The page is a very simple 2 column CSS layout. It's looks fine in Firefox with a div stretched out along the top, a large column on the left side for content and a smaller column on the right for links.

I've included below a simplified version of the page and the entire stylesheet. I'm butchering the somethingblue template.

The problem is that in IE 6 and 7, there's about a screen's worth of blank space at the top of the page. I have no idea how to get rid of it. I swear, I have been looking and tweaking this tiny bit of code for HOURS and there's something that I am just not seeing. http://apt131.com/photos/index.php?x=about

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

<html>
<head>
<title><SITE_TITLE></title>

<link rel="service.feed" type="application/x.atom+xml" href="<ATOM_AUTODETECT>" title="<SITE_TITLE>" />

<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="<SITE_TITLE> - RSS feed" href="/index.php?x=rss" />

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8" />
<meta http-equiv="imagetoolbar" content="false" />
<meta http-equiv="content-type" name="keywords" content="PhotoBlog,<SITE_TITLE>,<IMAGE_TITLE>,Pixelpost" />
<meta http-equiv="content-type" name="description" content="<SITE_TITLE>-PhotoBlog: <IMAGE_TITLE>, <IMAGE_NOTES_CLEAN>" />

<link rel="stylesheet" href="./templates/somethingblue/somethingblue.css" type="text/css" />
<script language='javascript' type='text/javascript'>

</script>
</head>

<div id="aboutwrapper">

<div id="logo" style="width:100%">
<span style="float:left"><a href="index.php">home</a></span>
<span style="float:right"><a href="index.php?x=browse">gallery</a> | <a href="index.php?x=about">info + links</a><br /><br />
</div>

<div id="aboutcontent">
<span class='headline'><SITE_TITLE></span>
<p class="abouttext">
Text text yay text</p>
</div>

<div id="aboutlinks">
<span class='headline'>Links</span><br />

<span class="abouttext">Site Links</span>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://photos.apt131.com/index.php?x=atom">RSS</a></li>
</ul>

The usual links and junk here

</div>

</div>
</body>
</html>

body {
background:#211a1a;
padding:0px;
text-align:center;
font-size:10px;
color:#fffcf4;
}
A { color: #FBBFCC; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size:12px; text-decoration: none; font-weight:normal; letter-spacing:1px; text-transform:lowercase;}
A:link { color: #FBBFCC; text-decoration: none;}
A:visited { color: #FBBFCC; text-decoration: none;}
A:active { color: #FBBFCC; text-decoration: none;}
A:hover { color: #FBBFCC; text-decoration: none;background-color: #000000;}
.headline {
font-size:22px;
font-weight:normal;
font-family:Georgia, verdana, sans-serif;
color:#DF1941;
line-height: 150%;
letter-spacing:-1px;
}
.datetime {
padding:0px;
font-family:verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size:12px;
font-weight:normal;
line-height: 75%;
letter-spacing:-1px;
}
.abouttext {
padding:0px;
font-family:verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size:12px;
font-weight:normal;
line-height: 110%;
letter-spacing:1px;
}
.thumbnails {
padding:5px;
color: #fffcf4;
border:0px;
text-align: center;
}
.current-thumbnail {
padding:5px;
border:1px dotted #FBBFCC;
}
#wrapper {
margin:0px auto;
padding-top:0px;
padding-left:0px;
padding-right:0px;
padding-bottom:0px;
width:600px;
text-align:center;
}
#aboutwrapper {
margin:0px auto;
padding-top:0px;
padding-left:0px;
padding-right:0px;
padding-bottom:0px;
width:700px;
text-align:center;
}
#aboutcontent {
margin:0px 0px;
padding-top:0px;
padding-left:0px;
padding-right:0px;
padding-bottom:0px;
width:400px;
text-align:left;
float:left;
}
#aboutlinks {
margin:0px 0px;
padding-top:0px;
padding-left:0px;
padding-right:0px;
padding-bottom:0px;
width:200px;
text-align:left;
float:right;
}

#logo {
padding:0px;
font-family:verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size:12px;
font-weight:bold;
letter-spacing:-1px;
}
#image {
padding:0px;
background:#fffcf4;
border:5px solid #fffcf4;
}
#imagespacer {
margin:0px auto;
padding-top:0px;
padding-left:0px;
padding-right:0px;
padding-bottom:0px;
height:50px;
text-align:center;
}
#image-info {
color: #fffcf4;
font:12px verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;
line-height: 100%;
text-align: justify;
border-bottom:1px dotted #FBBFCC;
}
#image-navigation {
line-height: 100%;
padding:0px;
font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size:12px;
font-weight:bold;
letter-spacing:-1px;
}
#add-comment {
color: #fffcf4;
font:12px verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;
line-height: 170%;
text-align: justify;
}
.input {
width:50%;
font-size:12px;
border:1px dotted #FBBFCC;
background-color:#211A1A;
color:#FBBFCC;
}
#comments {
color: #fffcf4;
font:12px verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;
line-height: 170%;
text-align: justify;
border-bottom:1px dotted #FBBFCC;
}
#comments ul {
list-style-type:none;
margin:0px;
padding:10px;
}
#comments li {
display:block;
border:0p8B384Bd #FBBFCC;
margin:0px;
color:#fffcf4;
text-decoration:none;
padding:3px;
}
#comments li a {
color:#FBBFCC;
text-decoration:none;
}
#footer {
text-align:center;
margin-bottom:20px;
font-family:verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size:12px;
font-weight:bold;
letter-spacing:-1px;
}