How do I decrease spacing in between elements (there are no <br> codes to delete)?

F

fitwell

Thanks, appreciate any help. I can't figure out how to make this more
compact in terms of losing extra space. The rest is perfectly fine so
it's just the spacing.

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R

Robert Frost-Bridges

fitwell said:
Thanks, appreciate any help. I can't figure out how to make this more
compact in terms of losing extra space. The rest is perfectly fine so
it's just the spacing.
[snip code]

I think you need to sit down and have a rethink about redoing the whole
page with more up to date coding. A lot of the html you are using is
now deprecated and has been superseded. Quite a bit of the code you
have there could actually be stripped out and used seperately in a css
stylesheet.

This one stylesheet can be used across the whole site to suggest such
things as font colours, alignments, positioning (including spacing).
Basically all the presentational bits of your page. You should then
find the remaining pared down html page a lot easier to manage and
update.

Have a look at Dave Raggetts pages at the w3c for an introduction:
http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Guide/

You can read about the current specifications for html and css:
http://www.w3.org/TR/1998/REC-html40-19980424/cover.html
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/ (although css3 is coming and probably
some version of xhtml/xml but these are good for now).

and you can also check how you're doing here:
http://validator.w3.org/
http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/

I really think you should give it a go.
Good luck,
 
F

fitwell

fitwell said:
Thanks, appreciate any help. I can't figure out how to make this more
compact in terms of losing extra space. The rest is perfectly fine so
it's just the spacing.
[snip code]

I think you need to sit down and have a rethink about redoing the whole
page with more up to date coding. A lot of the html you are using is
now deprecated and has been superseded. Quite a bit of the code you
have there could actually be stripped out and used seperately in a css
stylesheet.

This one stylesheet can be used across the whole site to suggest such
things as font colours, alignments, positioning (including spacing).
Basically all the presentational bits of your page. You should then
find the remaining pared down html page a lot easier to manage and
update.

Have a look at Dave Raggetts pages at the w3c for an introduction:
http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Guide/

You can read about the current specifications for html and css:
http://www.w3.org/TR/1998/REC-html40-19980424/cover.html
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/ (although css3 is coming and probably
some version of xhtml/xml but these are good for now).

and you can also check how you're doing here:
http://validator.w3.org/
http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/

I really think you should give it a go.
Good luck,

Thanks re the good luck. This is the coding I know and it's not for
webpages, just for hdd help pages I do up. I'd rather not have to get
more complicated esp. going the CSS route. It's not necessary for
this application and I don't want to take valuable time away from my
other projects to learn CSS at this time. Is there no way to fix the
spacing problem while still using this archaic coding? i.e., no way
like in WP to get the page to typeset up a line or two?

Thanks.
 
R

rf

fitwell said:
On Tue, 18 Nov 2003 22:33:24 +0000, Robert Frost-Bridges


Thanks re the good luck. This is the coding I know and it's not for
webpages, just for hdd help pages I do up.

You should have said that up front. It is assumed here that you are talking
about a web page.
I'd rather not have to get
more complicated esp. going the CSS route.

Why? 10 hours invested right now learning about CSS (and that is all it
should take) will save you hundreds of hours over the next year.
It's not necessary for
this application and I don't want to take valuable time away from my
other projects to learn CSS at this time.

See above.
Is there no way to fix the
spacing problem while still using this archaic coding? i.e., no way
like in WP to get the page to typeset up a line or two?

No, there is not.

If you want to change these sort of presentational things then the tool to
use is CSS. That is what it is for.

Cheers
Richard.
 
F

fitwell

You should have said that up front. It is assumed here that you are talking
about a web page.


Why? 10 hours invested right now learning about CSS (and that is all it
should take) will save you hundreds of hours over the next year.


See above.


No, there is not.

If you want to change these sort of presentational things then the tool to
use is CSS. That is what it is for.

Cheers
Richard.

Richard, thanks for your opinion and we'll just leave it at that,
okay? I'm not going to belabour the point.

If _anyone_ can give constructive help on fixing the spacing problem
with the file itself, I would really _greatly_ appreciate it. If not,
pls advise what other group I can go to for the info. I have done
research here and there on my own but so much other more important
stuff to do that since I can't find, won't waste any more time. Would
be nice to do, that's all.

Thanks once again. Cheers.
 
R

rf

fitwell said:
Richard, thanks for your opinion and we'll just leave it at that,
okay? I'm not going to belabour the point.

If _anyone_ can give constructive help on fixing the spacing problem
with the file itself, I would really _greatly_ appreciate it. If not,
pls advise what other group I can go to for the info. I have done
research here and there on my own but so much other more important
stuff to do that since I can't find, won't waste any more time. Would
be nice to do, that's all.

<grin>Crikey. Another wall to bang my head against...</grin>

Which bit of "No, there is not" did you fail to understand.

There is no way at all to affect the spacing between <p> element using HTML.
You MUST use CSS.

And that is not my "opinion", that is just how things are.

OK, here is the required CSS (within its standard HTML element) to eliminate
the spacing between paragraphs. Stick in your <head> element.

<script type="text/css">
p {margin: 0;}
</script>

Not hard, is it :)

If you want to eliminate the spacing between all elements then
* {margin: 0;}

Cheers
Richard.
 
R

Robert Frost-Bridges

rf wrote:

OK, here is the required CSS (within its standard HTML element) to
eliminate the spacing between paragraphs. Stick in your <head>
element.

<script type="text/css">
p {margin: 0;}
</script>

oops,

<style type="text/css">
p {margin: 0;}
</style>

:)
 

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