Just wondering if anyone knows how to get rid of the annoying blank space that <form></form> tags create?

CSS fixes the problem in IE, I have yet to test it with NN though:

Regards,
Charlie

The Perl forum is more a webmaster issue forum, with an emphasis on Perl... so I'd say this qualifies.

As to the <form> tag issue... are you talking about the vertical space? If the form is inside a table, I will sometimes place the <form> tags between <tr> and <td> tags. Something like:

<tr><form><td>stuff</td></form></tr>

That seems to get rid of extra spacing.

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Matt G

Indeed, the solution mglaspie suggested is used by many, including me. Although this isn't exactly legit HTML and validator's will flag it as bad code, its works across all browsers and works well.


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I've often wondered about that... thanks for sharing the info.

It wasn't until I started working with IE that I noticed that carriage returns (hard returns) will affect your table tags and break tags as well.

<BR>something<BR>something

will often display differently (extra line space) than

<BR>something
<BR>something

ditto for <TD> tags

Thanks for all the tips guys.

Matt:

Yeah that's what I resorted to but as Eraser said it causes errors with w3.org which is what I wanted to avoid.

Thanks CP for your CSS tip.

Only thing with that solution is that Netscape 4.x will do REALLY weird things if you happen to have multiple tables, and you go putting the start and end form tags in between the tr's of the tables like if you did:
That css solution for IE is interesting. I'll have to try that (I wonder if it works for mozilla as well...)

PS: I hate html


Adrian

Yeah, I definitely would not recommend opening a form tag in one table and closing in another... you're just askin' for trouble.

I'd be interested if that css solution works in Netscape. Let me know if it works out for you.

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Matt G

I have been told that using nested form tags (i.e. outside of the <table> and </table> tags) it work. didnt get to try it, but I know it does work as my mate used it on his site.

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Heh heh..I really do need to learn a bit more CSS

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Yeah nesting outside works but try getting it to validate with w3.org. You can't surround a table with a block element or whatever they call it.

Yeah, that works. It's just bad HTML.

- wil