Blank space at the top of pages

[soundsavers]

I've created a script which is very similar to the new_products feature which gets 10 products and puts them on the frontpage in a featured list. Although I'm having troble with some blank space of about 5 lines above the displayed output.

 

The 2 things I thought it might be is

- The splitPageResults class creating space to tell you which page of the results you're looking at.

- Whenever there is a query error it appears at the top and takes up about as much space as the blank space I'm having trouble with.

 

Does anyone know anything of these problems, has it happened to anyone else and is there a possible solution?

I've done my best to explain it and hope it makes sense to someone :P

 

Thanks

[germ]

Oh, I know! It's.....?

 

Or it could be ....?

 

And if not it's....?

 

Oh crap you're just going to have to give a URL.

 

No one can say without looking at the HTML source.

:huh:

[bhavatmaj]

Can you Post the source code

[soundsavers]

http://www.soundsavers.com/catalog/index_new.php

 

I'm referring to the white space at the top of the page.

 

I've studied the HTML and can't see anything to indicate why it's doing that.

[germ]

From your source:

 

	<style type="text/css">
	img {
		-ms-interpolation-mode: bicubic;
	}

	</style>
<br>				
			<br>				
			<br>				
			<br>				
			<br><table valign="top">

Get rid of the <br>'s

:huh:

[soundsavers]

From your source:

 

	<style type="text/css">
	img {
		-ms-interpolation-mode: bicubic;
	}

	</style>
<br>				
			<br>				
			<br>				
			<br>				
			<br><table valign="top">

Get rid of the <br>'s

:huh:

 

I've viewed the source as the browser see's it in firefox and IE and haven't found those 5 <br> in either. Could you tell me how you're getting that, and which line number if you can? I might just be missing it.

 

Thanks

[germ]

If I look at the source in IE I see:

 

	<style type="text/css">
	img {
		-ms-interpolation-mode: bicubic;
	}

	</style>
</head>

The </head> shouldn't be there.

[soundsavers]

If I look at the source in IE I see:

 

	<style type="text/css">
	img {
		-ms-interpolation-mode: bicubic;
	}

	</style>
</head>

The </head> shouldn't be there.

 

I don't think that's important though, the problem lies elsewhere, for example if you look at this,

http://www.soundsavers.com/catalog/fpd.php

you can see that it is something else causing it.

[germ]

Take out the funky style and see what happens.

[soundsavers]

Take out the funky style and see what happens.

 

By funky style if you mean that line of css, all that does is set how IE resizes the image because bicubic isn't set to default. It won't be anything to do with that. I'm sure the problem is with one of oscommerce' php functions that is for some reason adding lines for a different, unused purpose.

[germ]

By funky style if you mean that line of css, all that does is set how IE resizes the image because bicubic isn't set to default. It won't be anything to do with that. I'm sure the problem is with one of oscommerce' php functions that is for some reason adding lines for a different, unused purpose.

Highly unlikely as no one else has this problem in all the tens of thousands of stores on the net.

[soundsavers]

Highly unlikely as no one else has this problem in all the tens of thousands of stores on the net.

 

Apologies, I'm not explaining myself very well.

 

http://pastebin.com/m375dda5a

 

That is what is running behind the previous link. I'm fairly certain that it is one of those tep_ functions, or, something to do with the splitProductsQuery object that would normally act correctly, but I've edited in such a way that it creates the blank space for a purpose, but fills it with nothing causing the apparent gap.

 

Thanks for your continued efforts.

[germ]

Play ball with me and take out the funky style, just as a test.

<_<

 

That's the only thing I see in the code that is not "standard".

 

I know what it's for, I just want to find out if it's the cause.

[soundsavers]

Play ball with me and take out the funky style, just as a test.

<_<

 

That's the only thing I see in the code that is not "standard".

 

I know what it's for, I just want to find out if it's the cause.

 

http://www.soundsavers.com/catalog/forGerm.php

 

Sorry to disappoint! I have nightmares about trying to solve this :(

[germ]

In the test page you made for me:

 

Change all the

 

</td><br>

to just

 

</td>

[h2oHOH]

no DOCTYPE, makes it hard to debug...you could try this and see if it would work???

 

<style type="text/css">
<!--
img {
-ms-interpolation-mode: bicubic
}
-->
</style>

 

hoping this may help....????

 

_sM

[soundsavers]

Thanks h2oHOH, I already tried getting rid of that CSS though.

 

Got rid of one instance of the <br>, Seems like no difference to me :/

 

What's also confusing me is why the blank space appears before anything else. It would be easier to trace the cause if it was in the middle.

 

Thanks for the continued help guys, appreciate it.

[germ]

Change all the:

 

<tr><br>

to

 

<tr>

[soundsavers]

I got rid of all <br> thinking it would result in a huge mess of cells and rows but to my suprise and joy it's kinda fixed it.

 

http://www.soundsavers.com/catalog/forGerm.php

 

Just need to put back in the ones that align everything :)

 

Thanks Germ, you've been a star

[germ]

You're welcome.

:)

Ad astra per aspera

;)

[h2oHOH]

Germ, you've been a star

Indeed! Interesting fix Jim! ...

 

not sure why those <tr><br>'s put space at the top of the table though..?

 

_seanMichael

[germ]

My theory is:

 

<table>
 <tr>
<td>
	<br>
</td>
 </tr>
</table>

Is correct syntax.

 

The <br> lies correctly placed within the table element.

 

While:

 

<table>
 <tr><br>
<td>
</td>
 </tr>
</table>

or

 

<table>
 <tr>
<td>
</td><br>
 </tr>
</table>

Is "incorrect" syntax because the <br> isn't properly placed inside the table so the browser lumped them together OUTSIDE the table.

 

At least that's my story and I'm sticking to it!

:lol:

[h2oHOH]

yes, that makes perfect sense, think i learnt something important with this one.

 

thanks_sM