<form>...</form> - how to supress blank space after </form> in IE?

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rob c - 01 Jan 2002 05:00 GMT

This is a minor thing and only appears in IE (so far), but I'd like to know to
correct it (if possible).

Whenever I use a form on a webpage, Explorer always leaves a blank line
following the </form> tag but Mozilla doesn't. Is there a way to supress the
blank line?

Thanks
Rob
www.rcp.ca

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Randy Webb - 30 Dec 2005 17:45 GMT

rob c said the following on 12/30/2005 12:13 PM:

> This is a minor thing and only appears in IE (so far), but I'd like to know to
> correct it (if possible).
>
> Whenever I use a form on a webpage, Explorer always leaves a blank line
> following the </form> tag but Mozilla doesn't. Is there a way to supress the
> blank line?

Remove the extra whitespace from your source code.

Irrelevant to JS though.

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Martin Honnen - 30 Dec 2005 17:52 GMT

> Whenever I use a form on a webpage, Explorer always leaves a blank line
> following the </form> tag but Mozilla doesn't. Is there a way to supress the
> blank line?

form is a block element like div or p so what you see is probably the
normal layout for the block element.
CSS allows you to change that, see the display property for instance
<http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/visuren.html#display-prop>
With inline CSS you can do e.g.
<form style="display: inline;">
or you better use a stylesheet with e.g.
#someForm { display: inline; }
and then an id attribute
<form id="someForm">
on that form element.
Depending on what you want to change it might also be helpful or
necessary to change the margin e.g.
<form style="margin-bottom: 0;">
If you have further questions on that try a tutorial on CSS and then a
CSS newsgroup.

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rob c - 01 Jan 2002 05:00 GMT

:>rob c wrote:
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:>If you have further questions on that try a tutorial on CSS and then a
:>CSS newsgroup.

As soon as you said "...form is a block element like div or p..." a small
light bulb started to flicker.

Thank you!
Rob

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McKirahan - 30 Dec 2005 18:10 GMT

> This is a minor thing and only appears in IE (so far), but I'd like to know to
> correct it (if possible).
[quoted text clipped - 6 lines]
> Rob
> www.rcp.ca

Try: <form style="margin:0px">

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