Hello all you HTML gurus. I am having a problem that I just am unable to solve with my blog. I have added a table to the post and it has created a block of nothingness between itself and the last piece of writing. You can see it in operation here - http://www.gardeningtipsnideas.com/2...f_flowers.html

Any ideas what I've done wrong?

Hi there,

This is quite wierd.

What i found was like 500-700 <br> tags. But if you goto 'view source' they do not show.

When i download the site (by saving page as) and loaded it into my HTML editor it comes up with loads of <br> tags.

I think you should check out your blog template files for an excessive amount of <br> tags and delete them.

<br> = Line Break

Hope this helps you
- Brett

coder is right.....There is more than 1300 <br> tags....

Remove them.

Have a look at W3C validator

Mostly not a problem with you using <br />, but where it's situated in the code. However, you don't need them, so I agree with above.

*Oh, and I noted this:

<tr>
<td><h2><a name="A-Flowers">A</a></h2></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="100"><strong>Acacia</strong></td>
<td width="300">Beauty in retirement; Friendship; Concealed love: Chaste love</td>
</tr>
And:
<td><strong>Gladiolus</strong></td><br />
<td>Strength of character, remembrance, infatuation, splendid beauty.</td><br />
<td></td>

I don't know much, but I usually go:
<tr>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
Not
<tr>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>

Use colspan instead.

Rana has a good point, use colspan to make one cell into two but merged into one.

I see an insane number of br tags as well, when I look at the DOM. But not in the page source. This is very strange, I'm not sure how the browser could see them but not report them as source when it's obviously rendering them.

Is there any javascript going on?

Yes; he's got 3 javascripts running and everything does show in the source code ... scrobins; you need to do alot of clean-up on the site, along with learning more about HTML & CSS.

Currently, you have not just the 3 javascripts running, but you also have a CSS file in your HTML code -- no wonder you have such a disaster in the background. The first few tables I saw (shown below) aren't coded properly -- as has been pointed out, you have way to many breaks..."<br />"...you really should study CSS more; get rid of the tables and do a CSS table-less layout.

Here's what I saw...

<div align="center"><br />
<table border="0"  align="center" width="400"><br />
 <tr><br />
<td><h2><a name="A-Flowers">A</a></h2></td><br />
</tr><br />
  <tr><br />
  <td width="100"><strong>Acacia</strong></td><br />
  <td width="300">Beauty in retirement; Friendship; Concealed love: Chaste love</td><br />
 </tr><br />
 <tr><br />
  <td><strong>Achillea Millefolia</strong></td><br />
  <td>War</td><br />

You don't need a break at the end of each line of code in tables.