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Using spacers in Firefox
Old 04-26-2007, 10:09 AM Using spacers in Firefox
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I created a table-based newsletter which appears fine in IE but shows extra white space in Firefox, caused by spacer gifs. When I created the page in Dreamweaver it showed that there were no browser errors.

I thought I read that spacers needed alt tags to render in Firefox, but this doesn't seem to make a difference.

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Old 04-26-2007, 10:24 AM Re: Using spacers in Firefox
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I think you read wrong. A spacer is nothing but a transparent gif and FF has no problem with that transparency, and the alt ATTRIBUTE makes no difference whatsoever.

Did you use CSS in this newsletter ?
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Old 04-26-2007, 10:53 AM Re: Using spacers in Firefox
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Only to apply line spacing, height, and padding to text.

I know that using spacers can be tricky, but keeping the table a set width can be a nightmare.
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Old 04-26-2007, 10:58 AM Re: Using spacers in Firefox
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Can we see the code ? Would be easier to debug that way
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Old 04-26-2007, 12:06 PM Re: Using spacers in Firefox
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Here it is. Thanks

http://www.diamondpackaging.com/news...ng07_test2.htm
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Old 04-26-2007, 12:29 PM Re: Using spacers in Firefox
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I don't see any extra space.
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Old 04-26-2007, 12:36 PM Re: Using spacers in Firefox
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You can try adding this to your css:

img{border: none;}
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Old 04-26-2007, 02:15 PM Re: Using spacers in Firefox
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Thanks for the tips.

I tried adding the img class (border: none), but it didn't seem to make a difference. For some reason, Firefox renders the spacer(s) with more white space than IE. Oddly enough, it doesn't affect a thin spacer that divides the lower two columns.
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Old 04-26-2007, 03:04 PM Re: Using spacers in Firefox
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Ok, I'm afraid this is more about IE's INCORRECT rendering of the styles you have and less about FF. I suspect that line-height: 14px might have something to do with it too.

It would be a whole lot easier to fix if it wasn't tables.
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