Alignment problems with table using Site studio 7.1

slhatton · Joined: 21 Dec 2007 Posts: 2

I'm a complete novice using Site Studio 7.1. I used a table on my home page here: www.goofproofservices.com. How do I get rid of the space between the top of my table and the header of my page? Here's the html up to the first line of text of my table. Please let me know if you need more code...

<table border="1" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" width="100%"><tbody><tr><br><td bordercolor="#ffffff"><p style="text-align: center;"><strong><font size="5"><font face="Arial"><font size="4">Our goal is to keep your printed materials...

PayneLess Designs · Joined: 28 Feb 2007 Posts: 1260 Location: Biloxi, MS

Oh, my! I know you don't want to hear this and probably know this already, but tables are not for page layouts. They are to be used for tabular data within a page.

That said, you have over 121 coding errors in that page! The main one is no document type, which puts every browser that tries to parse the page in Quirks Mode. IE alone loads a table twice before it displays it and it will aways add margins and paddings where you don't want them (the reason for so many IE hacks).

Sometimes the use of the Universal Selector at the very top of your CSS page will help:

slhatton · Joined: 21 Dec 2007 Posts: 2

I know my code is a mess - I've done everything in a rich text editor - the result is this messy code. I used a table because I find the Site Studio template limiting and I haven't quite got the funds to hire someone to do up my web page.

I try your suggestions. I appreciate your help very much.

PayneLess Designs · Joined: 28 Feb 2007 Posts: 1260 Location: Biloxi, MS

If I had the time, I would go through and do that page for you, but just can't spare the time right now. I'm keeping track of this topic, so if you get the code corrected before I can get to the page, just post here and I'll take another look. Might be that the code corrections will take care of your problem to a certain extent.

Merry Christmas.

Ron