CSS Background image has different result in IE 6 & 7 browser

spacing issue in browser

[Filmboy77]

i have an issue with extra white space after a background image at the bottom of my panels on the left hand side at <snip>

in the latest version of FF and IE everything looks fine. there is no padding on the bg image so i dont know where the space is coming from.

does anyone know what may cause this and what i can check for?

[edited by: swa66 at 4:10 pm (utc) on Oct. 6, 2009]
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[swa66]

The first thing to do is to find out which element's background goes where you see the whitespace.
I find it easiest to just add all possible elements a different solid color.

From there on it mostly becomes easier to figure out what to do to make it look better.