A request for help with a minor problem

[DonnovanSunride]

Hi all. I'm having a wierd problem, and I'm hoping some more experienced HTML people could tell me what I did wrong.

First off, here's a sample page I'm having trouble with:

http://www.light-sabre.com/amtgard/v2/home.html

The place I'm having trouble with is at the point where the top of the iceicle menu meets the banner at the top. That's supposed to connect, but it's not doing it. I'm not very good with tables, so I'm assuming I coded something wrong.


Any help would be great. Thanks!


Donnovan Sunrider

[Jed]

Use the layer tag and then position it through x and y

[DonnovanSunride]

Thanks for the suggestion Jed.

That tag isn't in my book, but I'll look around for how to apply it.

At least now I have a direction to go. :)

[sumobaby]

right, I took a peak at the code and I think there was far too much going on to explain how to change it, so I just did it myself and perhaps you can browse the code at your own leisure.

http://www.sumobaby.net/misc/amtgard.htm

if you go to View > Source and then copy the code and paste over your own on that page, should work fine.

there are some broken links on the page too, like at the bottom
:
'We have chosen Plamann Park North of Appleton as a location for play on Sundays at 1:00 PM.

To download your own copy of the Rulebook and other Amtgard documents, click here.'

haven't checked any others.

[DonnovanSunride]

Whoa!
I can't believe that you did that much to help, thank you!

The broken links were not really intended to work. It was just a sample of the page in a temporary directory.

I thank you both for your assistance in this. Now I can present it more confidently now that the annoying gap is missing from the menu.


Again, my heartfelt thanks for the assistance gentlemen.




Donnovan

[sumobaby]

other than my quite abundant opinion on design and layout.

The <tbody> is completely undeeded and therefore adding page weight. You may be using dreamweaver 4 which I believe adds the table body tag.:)

[Mary B.]

A lot of HTML editors put that TBODY tag in - it's supposed to hold a description of what's in the table. Blind people can then "view" your page better - there's hardware and software available that will actually read these tags aloud to them when they pull up your page.

[sumobaby]

ideally the <thead>, <tfoot>, <colgroup> should be used, then filled with the appropriate information.

Seeing that the software that inputs these tags are often used by people who aren't the best at HTML, the tag is redundant and therefore a waste and increases page weight.

When someone wishes to make sure that their site can be better browsed by blind people, they should look into using the tag and all it's attributes properly. Untill then, scrap it.

[udtzcom]

I use lot of tables im my page perhaps I can help. If your having problems with the tables not matching up together try these tips.

netscape will put a 1 pixel space between tables if the </td> tag is not at the very end of your image no spaces no returns
ie.
<td><image></td>. all on one line
Also a 1pixel space will happen if you do not set
cellspacing and cellpadding to ="0"