On Sep 30, 2009, at 3:04 AM, Ellen Heitman wrote: > To follow up on my last question, I'm including a link of the issue: > http://www.williamtobrien.com/letters_leaving.html > > You'll notice that after the header (e.g., December 1942) there is a > huge > gap between it and the rest of the content. This error appears only > in IE > (I'm using version 7), it is displayed correctly in FF, Safari, Google > Chrome, etc. I am using an iframe here and, strangely, when I view the > original file in an IE browser, a bunch of strange characters (empty > squares) appear below the heading and before the other content. > Someone > suggested this may be a server issue and not a CSS problem, in which > case I > would have to go elsewhere to get it resolved. Just wanted to check > one last > time to see if I should look into server-side issues, or if it's > something > in my HTML or CSS code.
Nothing to do with the server - it doesn't send any encoding header. And nothing to do with CSS either... 1. the filed loaded in the iframe has a content-type of ISO-8859-1 in the meta <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" /> I'm not sure if it was originally coded as such, though - check the settings in your editor. 2. there are a truckload of invisible characters between the closing </ h1> and the opening <table>: spaces and non-breaking spaces ( ). They are 'visible' - that is, take up space- in IE, probably due to the encoding mismatch. here is a screenshot of your file in my editor, with 'show invisible characters' turned on. <http://dev.l-c-n.com/_b/Ellen.png Philippe --- Philippe Wittenbergh http://l-c-n.com/ ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
