Sane

How do I close the <form> tag without creating a newline after the form was closed?

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You can see here how the form tag stretches the border of the surrounding region, due to the placement of </form>.

Any way around this?

mongeau

Could you post a screeny of what you mean? I can't seem to figure out where, or what exactly you are talking about.

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titaniumdecoy

Set the form's margin to 0.

Lich

I didn't even know you could set a form margin. Assuming there's only 1 form on the page, I've just been making the bulk of the page part of the form. So could we do CSS with it then I assume?

[PHP]
form
{
margin: 0;
}[/PHP]

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Sane

Wee! Thank-you.

DaWei

Just a side note. The default values for many things are not zero. Sometimes they aren't even what one would expect (though that's, of couse, a matter of opinion). It can be a huge pain in the south end of a northbound designer.

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DaWei

Yup...

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titaniumdecoy

I've seen the following used to set the margin and padding of every element to 0:

Although I'm not sure how compatible this is with different browsers.

DaWei

The non-zero defaults are there for a purpose, of couse, even if one disagrees with their exact values. Unilaterally defeating them with a simple statement seems like an idea that would cause the investment of much more effort in order to restore a halfway decent appearance. Just a thought. I have a bad habit of sitting behind the barn, watching the crops grow, and wondering about such things. Oh, well, time and effort are free.

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Ooble

I used to do that same thing, but many things, as DaWei said, have margins and padding for a reason. Paragraphs use margin-bottom to space themselves out, and lists use margin-left or padding-left (depending on your browser) to indent themselves.

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