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Black Spaces Appearing on Template pages?
I wonder if we can get some assistance. We installed Links SQL on http://www.gold-pages-ru.net in English. Works great. Then I went through the template pages and just translated the text directly from the templates from English in to Russian (Cyrillic Windows) then rebuilt the Db. This was just cut and paste operation English/Russian. After that it works fine, but on the competed pages online there are sections or squares of BLACK space on each of the template pages.

Here are some pages which have the black space.

http://www.gold-pages-ru.net/cgi-bin/links2/user.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gold-pages-ru.net%2Fcgi-bin%2Flinks2%2Fadd.cgi&from=add

http://www.gold-pages-ru.net/cgi-bin/links2/user.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gold-pages-ru.net%2Fcgi-bin%2Flinks2%2Fmodify.cgi&from=modify

http://www.gold-pages-ru.net/New/

http://www.gold-pages-ru.net/Ratings/

http://www.gold-pages-ru.net/Cool/



Now when I copy the code with Russian text and put it into my HTML editor (Frontpage) the page appears fine, there is no black space. But when the page is built by Perl, online the space appears?

How do I get rid of the black space magically appearing on each page?

Thanks.

admin@ecmaweb.com
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I'm not sure which file it is in - not familar enough with the templates yet - but, if you're familiar with the pages/templates this may be helpful to you. The black space is appearing because there is not enough content in the cell to the right of that cell.

<input type=submit value="Search!"> </td></tr> <tr><td width=6 bgcolor=black> <img src="http://www.gold-pages-ru.net/...efault/BlackShim.gif" width=6 height=100></td> <td valign=top>

That is the bit of code in the area. On that second <td> in there, define a width for that cell and it should (hopefully) compensate for the lack of content to maintain the cell width.

for example:

<input type=submit value="Search!"> </td></tr> <tr><td width=6 bgcolor=black> <img src="http://www.gold-pages-ru.net/...efault/BlackShim.gif" width=6 height=100></td> <td valign=top width="99%">