Re: [css-d] odd space appearing in IE8

2012-08-09 Thread Angela French
I wanted to share this article I found that helped me understand the concepts: http://reference.sitepoint.com/css/collapsingmargins . It has some good examples too. > > > This is a very special case of margin-collapsing in that the affected > div >has a min-height specified. As I noted in my

Re: [css-d] odd space appearing in IE8

2012-08-09 Thread Angela French
:51 AM >To: CSS-D >Cc: Philip TAYLOR >Subject: Re: [css-d] odd space appearing in IE8 > > >Le 9 août 2012 à 20:06, Philip TAYLOR a écrit : > >> But what for behaviour does the specification call, Philippe, in your >> opinion ? > >Back in time - somewhere in 200

Re: [css-d] odd space appearing in IE8

2012-08-09 Thread Philip TAYLOR
Philippe Wittenbergh wrote: Back in time – somewhere in 2007 or so – when we first discussed and investigated this, the Gecko behavior was correct. But the spec text was different. Since then, the CSS WG discussed that issue and modified the spec text (quoted below); see the links provided by

Re: [css-d] odd space appearing in IE8

2012-08-09 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
Le 9 août 2012 à 20:06, Philip TAYLOR a écrit : > But what for behaviour does the specification call, Philippe, in > your opinion ? Back in time – somewhere in 2007 or so – when we first discussed and investigated this, the Gecko behavior was correct. But the spec text was different. Since the

Re: [css-d] odd space appearing in IE8

2012-08-09 Thread Philip TAYLOR
Philippe Wittenbergh wrote: > This is a very special case of margin-collapsing in that the affected > div has a min-height specified. As I noted in my first reply, this > calls for a more complex behaviour. And it is in this very special > case that browsers don't really agree on what to do wit

Re: [css-d] odd space appearing in IE8

2012-08-09 Thread Alan Gresley
On 9/08/2012 8:58 AM, Philippe Wittenbergh wrote: Le 9 août 2012 à 03:41, David Hucklesby a écrit : Well, this article explains this in terms of a top margin. Bottom margins behave the same way--but not in all browsers, it seems. I admit that this continues to confuse me, too, as the behavior

Re: [css-d] odd space appearing in IE8

2012-08-08 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
Le 9 août 2012 à 03:41, David Hucklesby a écrit : > Well, this article explains this in terms of a top margin. Bottom margins > behave the same way--but not in all browsers, it seems. > > I admit that this continues to confuse me, too, as the behavior is > inconsistent among browsers, as you hav

Re: [css-d] odd space appearing in IE8

2012-08-08 Thread David Hucklesby
bject: Re: [css-d] odd space appearing in IE8 On 8/7/12 4:05 PM, Angela French wrote: http://sbctc.edu/indexTESTAD.aspx There is an odd gap under the blue div that has the text in it that reads "One System. 34 Colleges." [...] Well, this article explains this in terms of a top

Re: [css-d] odd space appearing in IE8

2012-08-08 Thread Angela French
tags make a gap outside of the div? Angela >-Original Message- >From: css-d-boun...@lists.css-discuss.org [mailto:css-d-boun...@lists.css- >discuss.org] On Behalf Of David Hucklesby >Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2012 6:56 PM >To: css-d@lists.css-discuss.org >Subject: Re: [css

Re: [css-d] odd space appearing in IE8

2012-08-08 Thread Angela French
David - Can you please tell me where you find the that's " poking through" with the margin-bottom:10px? Thanks, Angela French >The gap is the margin-bottom of 10px on the that's poking through. > >You have several options: > >1. Add div#layout_AdBox { overflow: hidden; } 2. Add div#layout_AdBo

Re: [css-d] odd space appearing in IE8

2012-08-07 Thread Ted Rolle, Jr.
Actually, the blue line looks like a nice design element. Check whether it really does look nicer without it :-) Ted On 08/07/2012 07:05 PM, Angela French wrote: > http://sbctc.edu/indexTESTAD.aspx > > There is an odd gap under the blue div that has the text in it that reads > "One System. 34 Co

Re: [css-d] odd space appearing in IE8

2012-08-07 Thread David Hucklesby
On 8/7/12 4:05 PM, Angela French wrote: http://sbctc.edu/indexTESTAD.aspx There is an odd gap under the blue div that has the text in it that reads "One System. 34 Colleges." You can see the grid image that is a background image for the content grid. I can fix it by dropping the same gr

Re: [css-d] odd space appearing in IE8

2012-08-07 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
Le 8 août 2012 à 08:05, Angela French a écrit : > http://sbctc.edu/indexTESTAD.aspx > > There is an odd gap under the blue div that has the text in it that reads > "One System. 34 Colleges." You can see the grid image that is a > background image for the content grid. I can fix it by

[css-d] odd space appearing in IE8

2012-08-07 Thread Angela French
http://sbctc.edu/indexTESTAD.aspx There is an odd gap under the blue div that has the text in it that reads "One System. 34 Colleges." You can see the grid image that is a background image for the content grid. I can fix it by dropping the same gradient that is in my blue div in the co