Posted by richard on 10/02/06 08:08

"Ben C" <spamspam@spam.eggs> wrote in message
news:slrnei1gb3.tu5.spamspam@bowser.marioworld...
> On 2006-10-02, richard <don@john.son> wrote:
>> http://1-small-world.com/index3.html
>>
>> Trying to work with xhtml some I've run across 2 problems I would like
>> solved.
>> Firefox displays a small area before the "blue" header section. How to
>> correct?
>
> I think the problem there is your <font> element, which creates an
> inline box with nothing in it but a height equal to the default
> line-height at that point. Either wrap the <font> element around
> whatever you want the font set on, or, preferably, use CSS font
> properties instead and no font element at all.
>
>> I would like the "1 small world" text centered more over the globe rather
>> than at top.
>> I can do it in html, but xhtml seems to not like that idea.
>
> You may be able to get that working with the background-position
> property.

My editor has been inserting font statements by itself for some reason.
I try to get rid of them first.

Now I think I managed to get rid of the whitespace but now a slight problem
with the text in the "header".
Slowly I will get it right.

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