Els wrote:
> Robert O'Rourke wrote:
>
>> I've been working on a site and just at the stage of tidying up the
>> CSS however I have a strange problem with margin collapsing. It
>> looks like there is some unwanted margin on the HTML element itself
>> which is really confusing me. I've been trying all sorts to fix
>> this problem. Putting a border on the BODY tag made that border
>> encroach into the unwanted margin at the bottom of the page but not
>> remove it. I'm at a loss here. The page is at
>> http://www.sanchothefat.com/dev/tc/ and the unwanted space is at
>> the bottom of the page in the latest Firefox and Opera but not in
>> Safari or Chrome. I'm still working on some IE fixes, it's the
>> margin issue I want to eliminate in FF and Opera for now.
>>
>> Please help!
>
> Some script is inserting an image below div#wrap:
> <img alt="Loading" id="l" 
> src="/dev/tc/wp-content/themes/treecarving/gfx/green-loady.gif"/>
>
> This image has a style set too, on line 703 of your style.css:
> #l {
>    left:-999px;
>    position:absolute;
> }
>
> Even though it's sitting 999px to the left of the screen, it's still 
> taking up its height.
> If you also give it a negative top value, it wouldn't.
>

That will be it then! Thanks so much for your speedy help.
-Rob
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