huge gap between best sellers and new products on homepage

[TraceyHand]

I've been in my list layouts and somehow I have ended up with a large gap between my best sellers and new products listings on the homepage.

I've changed all my list layout back to how it was before I started (it's George's fault!) but it's not displaying the same

on budget-bumps.co.uk homepage...see the gap I mean?

attached is a screen grab of the list layout for the best seller list..it's identical to the new product one which is fine :s

each "before" contains

<td class="dotted_outline_blue" valign="top" width="33%">

first and middle "after" is

</td><td><div class="best_selling_items_spacing"><img src="theme_shim.gif" height="1" width="1" alt=" " /></div></td>

the "after row" is

</tr><tr><td colspan="3"><div class="best_selling_items_spacing"><img src="theme_shim.gif" height="1" width="1" alt=" " /></div></td></tr>

but it seems to repeat on the page

any ideas why?
sorry to be a pain...it's been one of "those" days

[pinbrook]

I susect it is due the the fact you are manipulating the list index to choose which products to display

See

http://community.actinic.com/showthr...ight=listindex

and the problems i also had,

[TraceyHand]

thing is Jo, I've been doing that for a while...but this problem only started today when I'd been fiddling with having both the first row and middle rows filled but...then deleted the content of the "first row"
I've had the middle row copied to the first row then removed it.

The actually using only part of the listindex hasn't given me any problems..til now

might have to compare layouts...maybe I've done something else somewhere.. but a view of the style information seems to imply its the list layout that's causing this

ok...editted to say...I've reverted back to factory now and will just re-do my blockif and styling again...
quick fix, I suppose but still don't know what was causing the problem because the reverted list layout rows are exactly the same

[dave_finlayson]

Tracey,

Is it because you have the middle rows set to 3 when you are only using 2? Looks like you have extra table cells in there!

There is also a class called 'best_selling_items_spacing' inbetween them which you could look at reducing the size of if needed.

[TraceyHand]

I dunno, David!
I've reverted back to factory now and it still says exactly what it said before...3 rows...same content..except that now it displays correctly.

another flakey moment, perhaps..I dunno..if I hadn't tried a compact first I might have thought so..I actually thought a compact of the database or a restart would fix it but it didn't.

Reverting to original fixed it...but without actually changing anything

Thanks though

also..I thought the middle rows as 3 was the number of items IN the row (which IS 3) ? or am I wrong?

[dave_finlayson]

Yeah very odd, it's definately removed the extra table cells. Maybe Actinic just having a mad moment!