Weird HTML Tag in Code... Did Actinic put it in?

[Crash]

In the majority of my pages I get this weird html tag...

<span style="whatever">
<span class = "whatever">

I researched these tags and found that they are for formatting purposes. My question is, did Actinic create these tags? or were the tags inserted manually into the site via the template?

(I ask this question only becuase I am having a formatting issue where after the section with search bar going into the product list, there is a massive amount of blank space. The spaces won't appear in dreamweaver, only in preview in browser mode. Why can't I erase that space?)


Here is an example of the problem code.

<A HREF="P_index.html"><SPAN CLASS="actsmall style1"><font size="-1" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><U><I><B>Dorm101</B></I></U></font></SPAN></A><SPAN CLASS="actsmall"><B>:</B></SPAN><SPAN CLASS="actsmall"><font size="-1" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><B>Individual
Products </B></font></SPAN></DIV>
</A>
<! Here DOWN IS THE PROBLEM>
<INPUT TYPE=HIDDEN NAME="SID" VALUE="2">
<INPUT TYPE=HIDDEN NAME="PAGE" VALUE="PRODUCT">
<INPUT TYPE=HIDDEN NAME="PAGEFILENAME" VALUE="P_index.html">
<BR>


TEST HERE

<!-- Typed Test Here to See Where the text position on the web site. It is above the extra space-->
<TABLE WIDTH="500" COLS="3" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="10" CELLSPACING="0" ALIGN="CENTER">
<TR>
<TD WIDTH="160"></TD>
<TD WIDTH="160"></TD>
<TD WIDTH="160"></TD>
</TR>
What
<tr>
<td rowspan="2" valign="TOP" align="CENTER"><font face="arial" size="-1"><a name="aJersXL"><span class="actregular"><b>Jersey
Knit Twin XL Sheet Sets</b></span></a></font><br>
<br>

Thanks In ADVANCE....!!!

[jont]

The style and class tags are in the original templates but will show as something like <span class"ACTSMALL"> .... Actinic converts the ACTSMALL for the (in this instance) font style from the actinic.css file ... for more control you can edit the actinic.css file or hardcode the HTML <spn> tags accordingly.

Extra spaces are usually due to <br> tags one of which is shown above TEST HERE in your code

[Crash]

Hey thanks for responding.

Yes you are absolutely right, but above my "TEST HERE" there is only one <br> tag. However in the output of the web page approx. six breaks show up. Thats when I thought maybe that had something to do with the <span class> tags. I think that they might have something coded into them that adds the spaces.

Is it possible for me just to rewrite that site, without the span tags, get it the way I want it and NOT have Actinic put those tags back in?

[jont]

Is the site live for someone to take a look at?

[Mike Hughes]

You don't need to use the actinic span tags. There's just part of the actinic themes / designs. You can build your own design and integrate actinic into it. Details are in the Advanced User Guide.

When <BR> spaces appear to exist in the viewer but can't be found on the page when you view the source code then it is usually down to <BR> being inside a table somewhere but outside of a defined cell (i.e. outside of <TD></TD> tags). The browser will usually place anything inside a table but outside a cell at the top of the table above everything else.

Mike

[Crash]

Holy crap mike I cant believe it... YOU WERE RIGHT!!! SWEET! WHat happened was.... ON the site there are a lot of tables. There is one main table that actinic generated for the page, then there was a header table, but within the header table, the content for the header was designed INSIDE another table ! So basically There is a table > in another table > in another table. That goes for the everything... footer, content, products.... so basically in one of the sections there was a <br> outside of the table, but somewhere at the bottom that got pushed up top. It was sooo confusing, but I finally got it. Thank you Jont and Mike for your help. You guys rock!