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Phantom space between list items in IE6

Works fine in IE7 and Firefox

bobming

8:56 pm on Jan 16, 2007 (gmt 0)

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It was supposed to be a simple menu, but I've noticed I'm getting some mystery padding or margin between the items in my list, but only in IE6. Is there something simple I'm missing here?


<html>
<head>
<title>Untitled Document</title>
<style type="text/css">
#right-menu{
position:absolute;
top:150px;
right:0;
}
#nav{
margin:0;
padding:0;
list-style-type:none;
}
#nav li{
margin:0;
padding:0;
background:#fff url("../images/nav-bullet.gif") left no-repeat;
}
#nav li a{
display:block;
text-decoration:none;
font-size:18px;
font-family:"Trebuchet MS";
margin:0;
padding:7px 40px;
background:transparent url("../images/nav-button.gif") right no-repeat;
}
#nav li a:hover{
background:transparent url("../images/nav-hover.gif") right no-repeat;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="right-menu">
<ul id="nav">
<li><a href="page1.html">Menu Item One</a></li>
<li><a href="page2.html">Menu Item Two</a></li>
<li><a href="page3.html">Menu Item Three</a></li>
<li><a href="page4.html">Menu Item Four</a></li>
</ul>
</div>
</body>
</html>

Setek

10:36 pm on Jan 16, 2007 (gmt 0)

10+ Year Member

It's because you have your

#nav li

displaying (by default) as

list-item

, and

#nav li a

set (by author) as

block

. This creates an extra line below the anchor in IE 6, it's a bug :)

It's most easily fixed by just setting

#nav li

to display inline, but it means your

background

property probably won't work all that well, since the

li

would then take up one line, and if you needed it positioned farther down vertically, it can't.

I believe either SuzyUK or Robin_reala had another fix for this, not involving changing the display type - but I'm sorry, for the life of me I can't remember what that was :)

Umm... try either

height: 1px

for IE 6 only (use conditional commented stylesheets) or maybe setting

line-height

to the exact height of the block-level anchor inside it :)

pageoneresults

10:39 pm on Jan 16, 2007 (gmt 0)

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I believe either SuzyUK or Robin_reala had another fix for this, not involving changing the display type - but I'm sorry, for the life of me I can't remember what that was :)

Would that be putting all the <li></li>'s on one line?

<ul>
<li></li><li></li><li></li>
</ul>

Setek

11:06 pm on Jan 16, 2007 (gmt 0)

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Would that be putting all the <li></li>'s on one line?

Hehehe nah, I never liked that solution, it was always so messy and difficult to maintain.

I think it had to do with setting the height or line-height properties, but since I'm at home I'm on a Mac, so I'd need to be at work to get at IE 6 to test :)

bobming

11:33 pm on Jan 16, 2007 (gmt 0)

10+ Year Member

Thanks for the input, glad to learn about yet another bug in IE6 :-)
However I seem to have fixed it another way...

I've given the "#nav li a" a set width in pixels, taken out the 40px padding on the sides and put it on the "#nav li". The space between the list items has gone, only this way the nav-bullet.gif background isn't part of the clickable link anymore, but I can live with that!

Panic_Man

9:20 am on Jan 18, 2007 (gmt 0)

10+ Year Member

I have been using what I like to call 'list-fish' to get round this problem. I can't take the credit for it though - read it online somewhere.

<ul
><li> *blah* </li
><li> *blah* </li
></ul>

n.b. ><li> is the 'fish' bit