Spacing Issue that has appeared from nowhere!

[whirlex]

Hello all,

Rite if ya look at the screeny attached you will find that there is a HUGE white space inbetween the cart/nav and the content.

I have recently applied the current snapshot as I am/was getting ready to go live tomorrow. and now it does this... (for an idea of how the spacing SHOULD work visit here... although the layout for the html pages is slighly diff!)

this worked fine on the old snapshot and ive even imported act_primary that I had backed up and I get the same problem in preview and my test server.

If i remove all actinic tags it doesnt stretch at all! Im at a loss as to what it could be.

Thanx in advance for all your help...

Ben

[wjcampbe]

Can you save Act_primary.html as a text file and attach here using the go advanced button to get the option to add an attachment?

Maybe one of us can spot something in that file.

[whirlex]

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The code is messy as hell as one of the last things I do is tidy it up once I know it works...

There are unquoted things all over the place so I dont know how much of a help this is goin to be..

Also I have set the page up for CSS printing... This NEEDS to stay in place!

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I havent changed anything since the new snapshot so I do not understand what is doin this!

Thanks for your help thusfar!

Ben

[wjcampbe]

I wonder about the purpose of this 397 pixel wide space?

<td>&nbsp;</td>
<td><img name="mini_nav_r1_c2" src="images/images/mini_nav_r1_c2.gif" width="122" height="30" border="0" alt=""></td>
<td width="397">&nbsp;</td>
<td><a href="http://www.bathroomexpress.co.uk" target="_top" onClick="MM_nbGroup('down','navbar1','mini_nav_r1_c4','images/images/mini_nav_r1_c4_f3.gif',1);" onMouseOver="MM_nbGroup('over','mini_nav_r1_c4','images/images/mini_nav_r1_c4_f2.gif','images/images/mini_nav_r1_c4_f4.gif',1);" onMouseOut="MM_nbGroup('out');"><img name="mini_nav_r1_c4" src="images/images/mini_nav_r1_c4.gif" width="20" height="30" border="0" alt="Home - Bathroom Express"></a></td>

[whirlex]

cheers for the reply Bill,

that space is just the width make no difference what so ever...

its inbetween the telephone number and the mini nav bar. I did try it with and without the width="" tag, made no difference what so ever =*(

i put on the old snapshot and it works fine... added the new snapshot once again, copied ALL the template files over and *BAM* big assed space again.

This has seriously messed up my schedual. I should be in the process of goin live now =/

[wjcampbe]

Sorry - I disagree.

if the code was <tr><td width="397">&nbsp;</td></tr>
<tr><td> etc - then it would set the width for the column

as it is - it creates a stand alone column 397 pixels wide.

When you tried without the 397, did you delete your temporary internet files between views or use F5 to force your browser to reload the page from code instead of from cache?

[whirlex]

Hi Bill,

Point noted, yes I did try that, and I [CTRL]+[F5]'d it...

You may notice that the cell is part of a seperate table that is nested in the main table.. it is fireworks HTML, hence the messy code which is yet to be tidied.

The thing that puzzels me most is that if I revert to the old snap shot it works fine... so i back up ALL template files, put on current LIVE snapshot and then it goes all shatpank again!

the reason I am working from 2 snapshots is; I have recently started working here and the live site is updated numerous times throughout the day. If i cocked up the site it could be catastrophic!

both snapshots are on 7.0.5 if that makes a diff or not!?

[Mike Hughes]

this kind of problem is nearly always down to messy tables where the <tr> & <td> tags aren't closed properly.

Edit: thought I'd found a specific example of this but on looking closer find it's OK.

Edit 2: Your previous row in that table has a spacer image sized as being 298 pixels. Is that right?

Mike

[whirlex]

thanks for your sugestions both,

the thing that really confuses me is that it works perfectly on the older snapshot that has trimmed down products to save time uploading.

but doesnt on current snapshot. with the exact same temp files.

its really messing my head up!!

[jont]

Bewteen the nav cell and the contents table is a nested table in a div:

   <div class="navsp">
          <table width="10" height="69" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
            <tr>
              <td>&nbsp;</td>
            </tr>
          </table>
        </div

can't find the style sheet referring to .navsp - could this be causing the problem as there is no obviuos need for the extra table in that location?

[wjcampbe]

The snapshots are just zip files with a different extension. If you copy your working snapshot off to another directory and rename it to zip extension the use winzip or similar to extract the working template. You can do aline by line comparison of the code looking for the discord or just copy that working template only, into the site1 directory.

[whirlex]

the reason there is a div called navsp is as it is a spacer that is not displayed with the 'print' stylesheet.

nothing has changed in act_primary, the problem lies elsewhere...

im the first to admit the layout isnt very tidy (code wise), that will be rectified when all the initial problems are ironed out! but i really cant see how a problem could arise in a template that I havent edited.

the problem IMO must lie in what it is calling (brochure etc) but why?

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[TraceyG]

Hi,

Did you make any changes to Act_ProductBody.html in the old site? This may need transferring across too.

[whirlex]

i have transfered EVERY template file from the old site over to the new site =/

[TraceyG]

Hi,

This will need some further investigation so I suggest that you register a query here or ring in if you have a cover contract, so we can get your snapshot.