Posted by the idiot on 07/06/05 16:26

"Els" <els.aNOSPAM@tiscali.nl> wrote in message
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> the idiot wrote:
>
> > "Els" <els.aNOSPAM@tiscali.nl> wrote in message
> > news:f2uknt8dxnjy$.1ryfuj9i6c5ks.dlg@40tude.net...
> >> the idiot wrote:
> >>
> >>> "Els" <els.aNOSPAM@tiscali.nl> wrote in message
> >>> news:vmtfkmu91cz5$.11wuvlfvss97l$.dlg@40tude.net...
> >>>> the idiot wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> im sure this is a daft question but i dont mind showing myself up
> >>>>> ho hum... but how do i get the top margin in opera and firefox to
> >>>>> be 0px.. no matter what i do there is always what looks like a
> >>>>> 10px gap... this also applies to the left margin in opera.
> >>>>
> >>>> Add *{margin:0;padding:0;} to the top of your stylesheet, and see
> >>>> if the gap goes away. If it does, all you have to do is check
> >>>> element by element where the margin or padding needs to be set to
> >>>> 0.
> >>>>
> >>>> A much quicker method could be posting the URL here, so we can
> >>>> actually see what you mean ;-)
> >>>
> >>> eek sorry too many things on brain.. and i am a man so can only do
> >>> one thing at once.
> >>
> >> <g>
> >>
> >>> http://www.207g.karoo.net/langan/index.html
> >>> excuse the mess
> >>
> >> At a first glance I think it may be caused by the top margin on the
> >> h1. What happens if you set it to 0?
> >>
> > aha fixes the prob in firefox but opera is still a mess...
>
> Well, I don't know how to edit styles locally in Opera, so I'm afraid
> you'll have to do that yourself (I don't have the time to copy the
> entire lot of html, css and images over to my own server). But the
> first step should be setting *{margin:0;padding:0;}. Temporarily of
> course. Do the gaps disappear when you do that?
>
> > how do you lot ever get any work done when you seem to spend all your
time
> > on here helping the likes of me?
>
> I'm on my break <g>
>
i stuck the header back into the wrapper and then gave the norizontal menu a
top-margin: -20px till it worked in opera.. so all is well. apart from
everything else. thanks agin.

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