Suzanne — Mon, 29 Apr 2002 19:59:31 +0000

At the risk of being redundant...

1. Use VALID HTML
2. Validate your HTML
3. THEN apply CSS

DIV is not an inline element (SPAN is).

You're just going to frustrate yourself if you keep going like this.

taff — Mon, 29 Apr 2002 15:31:45 +0000

my guess would be that the div tag is messing things up. iirc, nesting div within p is invalid coding. change the div tag to a span tag. you may have to play with the breaks though.

fifeclub — Mon, 29 Apr 2002 13:27:59 +0000

Okay so I got the spaces to disappear, but by accident. The code I used is

Mecklenburg County Park & Recreation

a.k.a. Park & Rec

parkandrec.com

(park and rec)

What I still don't understand (sorry) is probably the reason I was confused in the first place. I have the closing at the end of these 4 lines. Why in the above example does the bold/underline not affect the rest of the section before the If this were or or tag it would effect EVERYTHING between the start and end of that tag (all 4 lines).

Suzanne — Sun, 28 Apr 2002 03:29:03 +0000

Okay, you do know what the tag is for? It's a line break. ONLY. It is not a holder element. There is no closing tag for .

Your code

Mecklenburg County Park & Recreation

a.k.a. Park & Rec
parkandrec.com

The right code

Mecklenburg County Park & Recreation
a.k.a. Park & Rec
parkandrec.com

With over 450 registered teams, Park & Rec is the predominant adult slow-pitch softball league in Charlotte, and is the primary focus of this website. Park & Rec hosts both spring and fall leagues for Mens, Womens, Co-Rec, Industrial, Over-50, and Church. Spring leagues consist of a ten week long season of either twice-a-week or once-a-week, followed by divisional playoff tournaments. The spring season is immediately followed by the Tournament Of Champions featuring the best qualifying teams from each division in a county wide championship series. Fall leagues are five weeks long, twice-a-week only.

You would have to set .heading to be whatever you want, in this case, font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline. Though I would caution against underline as it's conventionally a link online.

Suzanne — Sun, 28 Apr 2002 03:14:13 +0000

I'm not sure why you think that is going to screw up the CSS. I'm assuming you haven't assigned any CSS to the tag. is a new line.

Name name name
Address
City State ZIP

Makes this:

Name name name
Address
City State ZIP

You don't need to set anything special for et cetera.

Also, instead of setting up classes, use the heading tags properly for headings. Hold on, I'm going to nab the first page and rework it a little to show you.

fifeclub — Sun, 28 Apr 2002 02:41:21 +0000

Quote: Originally posted by Busy
any reason your using inline instead of just one file to call your css from?
you could use a content tag or a content tag or even use the tag

Perhaps I've been going about this wrong. I am using 'global' CSS for all "normal" text (Helvetica 12px). I am using inline CSS to overwrite individial sections to prodice bold, italics, and various sizes. Are you suggesting that maybe I use the 'global' type (or whatever it's called)? In my header I have specific menu css's that work perfectly. Should I do it in a similar way to that, with many variations that I just call using the class tag?

Suzanne -

You suggested Content goes here. but how do I start a new line similar to ? I guess my overall question is simply how do you perform a type function, without actually using , so as to not screw up my type inline CSS? (if that makes sense)

Thanks again to all who are trying to help me.

Suzanne — Sat, 27 Apr 2002 23:50:54 +0000

Oh, and there are naturally spaces between paragraphs. You can sort of control this now with CSS, but if you really don't want any lines between paragraphs at all (as opposed to one blank line), then you'll have to put all the text into one and use where needed. However...

blah blah blah blah

blah blah blah

Is the same as

blah blah blah blah

blah blah blah

But the latter is far neater and forwards compatible.

Suzanne — Sat, 27 Apr 2002 23:27:45 +0000

Quote: Originally posted by fifeclub
No such luck. I changed all font, bold, and itlics tags in that section to inline CSS and I still get massive spaces. Inparticular, look at the line "a.k.a. Park & Rec". Aside from the fsct that it should be italics, it should be a both above and below it, but those closing tags (both and ) are still causing problems

there is no such thing as a .

I really recommend you validate that code. If you use line-height in the CSS there will be spacing problems in Netscape, however you shouldn't be using in your code at all at this point.

Drop it into valid HTML like this:

Mecklenburg County Park & Recreation
Content goes here.

IMAGE
HEADING
CONTENT

...

And you will lose most of the spacing problems. Don't use space at all, instead allow the browser to automatically do the spacing for you. You can control it in CSS if there is the need (like with tables).

The problem is that a) you are using inline CSS instead of local or global where it's not needed and b) you have badly formed HTML and it's mucking things up.

Busy — Sat, 27 Apr 2002 23:16:48 +0000

any reason your using inline instead of just one file to call your css from?
you could use a content tag or a content tag or even use the tag

fifeclub — Sat, 27 Apr 2002 17:32:22 +0000

No such luck. I changed all font, bold, and itlics tags in that section to inline CSS and I still get massive spaces. Inparticular, look at the line "a.k.a. Park & Rec". Aside from the fsct that it should be italics, it should be a both above and below it, but those closing tags (both and ) are still causing problems