Having done all this I E 8 gives me a margin ? How to get rid of it

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This is the web page

http://www.c5d.co.uk/sterlingpayments.php

You will see that it IE8 the "home symbol" has a yellow margin round it.

It doesn't in Firefox or Chrome

Is it possible to remove it ? Or it one of those IE quirks I keep reading about ?

Thanks

[ralph.m]

IE is a stupid browser, but IE8 and above are not hard to deal with in general. Try something like this:

#menu-item-143 a {color: black;}

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I'm afraid that this doesn't have any effect.

Is it possible to add a black margin ? Or might that put it round the yellow ?

[ralph.m]

Another thing to try is

img {border: none;}

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That's the one.

Easy when you know how I guess

Thanks again.

I have finished with this bit of my site now, though I think you mentioned that I should try and remove the BR tags and replace them with line heights.

I'll try and read up on it first before giving it a shot. Though my book isn't very clear.

Thanks again

Antony

[ralph.m]

I should try and remove the BR tags and replace them with line heights.

Not so much line heights, as <p> tags. E.g. Replace this:

<p>Over the years I have made 
many varied payments, for many varied things for anyone who needs to make a UK 
Payment.<br><br>I have ordered films/fiches, paid a deposit on a holiday at a B 
&amp; B in the Lake District, and numerous F H S Subscriptions where credit card 
facilities are not acceptable.<br><br>My charges are, 
 £ 2.00, plus 3.5% of your payment. This covers the commission levied by my 
credit card company. <br><br>If you wish to pay by check/cheque, please contact 
me by e mail, and I shall quote you in your currency.</p>

with this:

<p>Over the years I have made many varied payments, for many varied things for anyone who needs to make a UK Payment.</p>

<p>I have ordered films/fiches, paid a deposit on a holiday at a B &amp; B in the Lake District, and numerous F H S Subscriptions where credit card facilities are not acceptable.</p>

<p>My charges are, £ 2.00, plus 3.5% of your payment. This covers the commission levied by my credit card company.</p> 

<p>If you wish to pay by check/cheque, please contact me by e mail, and I shall quote you in your currency.</p>

To spread the <p>s apart a bit, do something like this in your style sheet:

p {margin: 1em 0;}

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This is where I get a bit stuck

<<<<To spread the <p>s apart a bit, do something like this in your style sheet:



Code:
p {margin: 1em 0;}>>>

What is 0 for and if you want some the equivalent of 2 BRs for one space and 3 BRs for another do you have to give them all different classes ?

Off to work now so can't reply till later

Thanks

Antony

[ralph.m]

What is 0 for

It's shorthapnd for this:

p {margin: 1em 0 1em 0;}

which means a margin of 1em on top, zero to the right, 1em on the bottom and zero to the left. If top/bottom are the same, and left/right, you can abbreviate it to what I gave.

and if you want some the equivalent of 2 BRs for one space and 3 BRs for another do you have to give them all different classes ?

It would be odd to do it that way, but I guess you'd set a basic spacing (like I gave above) and give a special class to any <p> that had a different margin. There may be ways to do it efficiently, depending on how it's set up.

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Thanks for the explanation.

Having looked at the book, it would seem that when I want a bigger space, the answer is padding

It works that way.

Thanks for the help

Antony

[ralph.m]

It depends on what kind of space you want. Both padding and margins are very useful for different things. A background image/color will show up in the padding area, but not in margin area, for example.