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Posted by Ben C on 07/07/07 09:07
On 2007-07-06, Tim Streater <timstreater@waitrose.com> wrote:
> In article <slrnf8tj98.sl3.spamspam@bowser.marioworld>,
> Ben C <spamspam@spam.eggs> wrote:
[...]
>> Firefox in quirks mode gives form a bottom margin of about 0.5em.
>>
>> You can fix your problem in two ways, of which you should do at least
>> the second and possibly both:
>>
>> form { margin: 0 }
>>
>> in the styles
>>
>> or use the strict mode doctype, i.e. put this right at the top of every
>> document:
>>
>> <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
>> "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/strict.dtd">
[...]
>> Even worse someone suggested on one of these NGs the other day "fixing"
>> the same problem by using broken form/table structure. It seems you were
>> starting to circle the same drain. I wonder how many of the broken
>> forms/tables I see every day on the web are caused by people trying
>> anything to make that bottom margin go away.
>
> OK. So are you saying that I shouldn't put a <form> inside a table cell?
Not at all, <form> inside <td> is fine, but nest the tags properly--
</form> before </td>.
Then set margin:0 on form to lose that bottom margin and you should have
no problems.
> I want to have an action button in my table row. I want to have valid
> html though, as in my experience hacks will bite you sooner or later. I
> made each cell have its own form, because I couldn't find in any of the
> docs I have whether a form can be submitted by any one of several
> buttons. All the examples I ever saw only had one button, and the docs
> didn't appear to cover the point.
Not sure if you can have multiple submit buttons in a single form or
not.
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/forms/tables.html might also be worth a
look.
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