X-Cart forums - <form> spacing

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- - <form> spacing (https://forum.x-cart.com/showthread.php?t=15103)

Is it just me or does using the <FORM> function add a lot of white space in between tables?

for example:

Quote:

<form method="POST" action="search.php" name="productsearchform">

<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="760">
<tr align="center">

<td align="right" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #cccccc;">
<input type="hidden" name="simple_search" value="Y">
<input type="hidden" name="mode" value="search">
<input type="hidden" name="posted_data[by_title]" value="Y">
<input type="hidden" name="posted_data[by_shortdescr]" value="Y">
<input type ="hidden" name="posted_data[by_fulldescr]" value="Y">
{* {$lng.lbl_search}: *}<input type="text" name="posted_data[substring]" size="20" value="{$search_prefilled.substring|escape}">
{include file="buttons/search_head.tpl"}
{* { include file="customer/searchPat.tpl" } *}

</td>
</tr>
</table>
</form>

That adds about two lines worth of white space below the form...

any suggestions as to how I get rid of that?

Thanks,
Weber

The form tag isn't doing that, the table tag is. Probably different spacing in different browsers.

figured it out

FOr some reason, it worked when I moved the <FORM> to right after the <Table> tags...

Your not going to be able to count on this looking right in all browsers though. The <FORM> tag be default takes up a certain amount of space before and after. You can change the spacing though through CSS and then you can count on how it will look in the browsers.

Just add this to the <FORM> tag:

style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"

so that is looks like this:

Code:

<form style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0" method=...........

[/code]

nice! that worked like a charm.

Thanks to both of you!