CSS Forum

**ceLL** · 06:01 PM

Hello,
I'm working on my first website, and I have this 2-4px gap between my "#contentheader" and my "#content". This only happens in IE6.

Here is a Screenshot:
http://img403.imageshack.us/img403/3967/sscopyaf6.jpg

The site:
http://www.teamjive.com/portfolio/default.html
http://www.teamjive.com/portfolio/style.css

Any ideas?
Thanks for your help

**coolkbk585** · 12-22-2007, 11:08 PM

I don't have IE6, so I wasn't able to test it, but at the start of your Stylesheet just put this:

Code:

* {
margin: 0px;
padding: 0px;
}

and see if that works.

**chrishirst** · 12-23-2007, 07:57 AM

remove the "white space" around the image element in "contentheader"

HTML Code:

<div  id=contentheader><img src="images/contentheader-home.jpg" alt="Home" /></div>

**serandfae** · 12-24-2007, 12:00 AM

I'd stay away from asterisk hacks, too: Though they may work for IE6, IE7 not only doesn't support them but can sometimes do strange things with them.

**LadynRed** · 12-24-2007, 11:28 AM

Actually, that's not a hack, in this case it's a 'wildcard' that means set margin and padding to zero for ALL elements, IE7 shouldn't have a problem with it.

**serandfae** · 01:50 PM

LNR, please clarify this for me. When I last checked positioniseverything.net, they said that IE7 didn't support *html, the basis for the Holly hack. Does it actually support a general * "wildcard" element? I certainly don't want to pass on incorrect info. Would it not still be better to set the margin: 0; and padding: 0; on the body element?

**LadynRed** · 12-26-2007, 03:46 PM

Yes, *html is a hack, but the 'wildcard' is supported and works well. Just zeroing out the margins and padding on the body element only applies to <body>, you'd then have to zero out on all the other elements, like this:

h1, h2, h3, #wrapper, #content etc... {margin: 0; padding: 0;}
So using the wildcard * is an easier way of applying it to everything.

**serandfae** · 12-27-2007, 01:44 AM

OK, that explains it. Thank you! I have encountered IE7 problems that I thought might be attributed to * by itself when used, but with all the things I have to do go get IE to behave it could just as easily have been something else. I have made a note of it.