Re: [rt.blitzed.org #187] odd gap has appeared in the middle of the page in IE

<URL: http://rt.blitzed.org:80/Ticket/Display.html?id=187 >

On Mon, Dec 22, 2003 at 01:18:42AM +0000, Andy Smith via RT wrote:
> Here is a page with absolutely no content at all:
> 
> http://blitzed.org/test/gap.php

I am getting somewhere!

I totally reformatted newtop.phtml just so I could understand it.
This only involved turning 8 space tabs into a smaller indent and
removing all "here" documents which mess up vim's highlighting.

Then I started commenting out the major sections of this file to
find out if the problem went away.  In the end I had commented out
everything and it was still present!

So, then I took out the call to /css/cssBuilder?skin=default and
instead went there in my browser to get a copy of what the CSS would
be like.  It is merely:

@import /css/blitzed.css
@import /css/skins/default.css

So I put both of those into /test/gap.css and loaded that.  Same
problem as expected.  I then went to work editing gap.css, and while
I was doing this I noticed that /css/skins/default.css redefines
pretty much everything that is in /css/blitzed.css as well.  Mainly
to make it as simple as possible I threw away the content from
/css/blitzed.css and just kept what had been in
/css/skins/default.css.  Now I reload and it looks right in IE, and
still looks right in Galeon!

So the problem is either:

- cssBuilder.phtml is broken, or
- there is something bad in blitzed.css that default.css does not
  override, or
- default.css trying to override everything in blitzed.css confuses IE.

but it is now 5.20am and I have been looking at this for about 6
hours so I must now sleep.  I think I can fix it tomorrow^Wlater
today.