Re: strange effect positioning an html dw in a div

[Jim Egan]

"Chris Werner" <cwAT{PleaseNoSpam}f-s.de> wrote...
> Hi all,
>
> positioning an html dw in a div I observe extra place the place
> for one text line above the html dw. Look at the appended JPGs,
> I'm talking about the white area containing the big text "370511 ...".
>
> Here's a small part of the effective html:
>
> ...
> <DIV class="dw_krtn" id="dw_lastkrtn" style="LEFT: 0px;
> WIDTH: 1000px;
> TOP: 50px;
> HEIGHT: 65px"
> name="dw_lastkrtn">
> <DIV STYLE="position:relative; height:63; width:1025">
> <STYLE TYPE="text/css">
> ...
>
> The first DIV named dw_lastkrtn comes from my web app, it
> is a container to position the html dw on the screen. The next
> DIV is the generated html dw. Between the top of dw_lastkrtn
> and the html dw is a gap having the height of one text line. I
> know this because the height of this gap depends on the font
> size in the CSS dw_krtn. What causes this gap? How to
> overcome it?
>
> Another strange behaviour observed by accident is that changing
> the generated div manually to have a top border disapears the gap:
> ...
> <DIV STYLE="position:relative; height:63; width:1025; BORDER-TOP: black 1px
> solid">
> ...
>
> Using PB 9.0.3, EAS 5.5 and Firefox 2.0.0.4
>
> TIA
>
> Chris Werner
> f+s software gmbh
>

I think the gap you are seeing has something to do with your situation. I do NOT get a DIV
generated by the HTML generator. Could it be related to the client formatting or allow
form options?
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Jim Egan [TeamSybase - Retired]