misaligned divs and mysterious indents

    Date: 06/15/05 (WebDesign)    Keywords: html, web

    Hi, I've been reading/commenting for a while, but this is my first post.

    On my website the content is divided into columns (and a header) using divs. Each column is subdivided into sections to manage the content. For some unknown reasons, the first few lines in the middle column are indented, aligned with a div in the header and a div in the righthand column.

    Here are the relevant bits of code:



    #title {
    border:1px solid #F6B33D;
    margin:5px;
    padding:5px;
    text-align:center;
    height:190;
    width: 1000px; /* the columns are in a 1000px wide container div */
    }

    #middle {
    margin:0px 200px 0px 200px;
    padding:2px;
    border:1px solid #F6B33D;
    position: relative;
    top: 83px;
    bottom: 10px;
    }

    #left {
    margin:0;
    margin-right: 0;
    padding:3px;
    width:170px;
    border:1px solid #F6B33D;
    position:absolute;
    top:220px;
    left:15px;
    overflow:hidden;
    }

    #right {
    margin-top: 200px;
    margin:0;
    padding:3px;
    width:170px;
    border:1px solid #F6B33D;
    position:absolute;
    top:220px;
    right:15px;
    overflow:hidden;
    }
    /* centres the divs within each column */
    .centerContent {
      text-align: left;
      border: 1px solid F6B33D;
      /*border-left: 10px solid #000;
      border-right: 10px solid #000;
      border-bottom: 10px solid #000;*/
      margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px; padding: 10px 5px 10px 5px;
      background: #23272b;
    }
    /* centres the title of each div in each column */
    .centerTitle {
      text-transform: lowercase; font-family: Arial, helvetica;
      color: #F6B33D; background: #000;
      margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px; padding: 2px 2px 2px 10px;
      letter-spacing:5px; text-align: left;
      font-weight: bold;
    }




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    I don't see where the problem could be. The w3.org html validator didn't pick up any mismatched divs, and I was sure there weren't anyway. This is starting to really frustrate me and I don't want to start over. Sorry if the code is too much, I tried to minimise it. Please help. :(

    Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/webdesign/905252.html

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