Why....

[Eagle]

Why do I get a big space below my signature.

[Eagle]

Well, its making a liar out of me.

[Eagle]

Aha, see it only happens on the replies.

[Martin]

Look at the box where your avatar and other stuff is. It has to fit, and that's why there's a space. If you posted a longer reply there wouldn't be a space.

[Keith]

A lot of boards have this issue .. just bad html is all

[RatTrap]

actually.. hehe.. i just now checked the html of the board.. and oh man does it need help.. i bet you could strip like 5k of useless tags.. the board works great.. the html works.. but it could be way better.. anyways.. to fix this lil problem:..

where you have the whole reply plus the signature it right now looks like this..

<tr>
<td bgcolor="#DFDFDF" width="175" valign="top" nowrap>

[* here goes the Avatar plus posts and nick and
all that info.. it takes about 160 pixels in
height.. and yes that is important to know *]

</td>
<td bgcolor="#DFDFDF" width="100%" valign="top">

[* here goes the actual post.. mostly blablablablabla..
and so on plus a few standard html tags..
then comes the screwy part.. check this out *]

<p><font face="verdana, arial, helvetica" size="2" ><br>
__________________<br>
- RatTrap, unf</font></p>

[* yep.. that is the signature code.. ouch..
and then comes the rant on the poster links *]

<p></p>
<p align="right"><font face="verdana,arial,helvetica" size="1" ><a href="report.php?s=&postid=360">Report this post to a moderator</a> | IP: <a href="postings.php?s=&action=getip&posti d=360">Logged</a></font></p>

[* double ouch.. *]

</td>
</tr>


but.. if this is complicated a lil further.. like so:..

<tr>
<td bgcolor="#DFDFDF" width="175" valign="top" nowrap>

[* avtar stuff in here.. just like b4..
remember about 160 pixels in height *]

</td>
<td bgcolor="#DFDFDF" width="100%" valign="top">

[* instead of putting the post text in here..
oh and check out this next tables height="160" *]

<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="100%" height="160">
<tr>
<td align="left" valign="top" height="100%">

[* we put all the post text in here..
make sure to put the <td >'s height to 100% *]

</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="left" valign="bottom" bgcolor="#aaaaaa">
<img src="nothing.gif" width="1" height="1" border="0"><br>

[* this one one is for the line between the post and the
signature.. and don't forget the <br> on the end..*]

</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="left" valign="bottom">

[* here starts the signature and rant links table *]

<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="100%">
<tr>
<td align="left" valign="bottom">

<font face="verdana, arial, helvetica" size="2">
- RatTrap, unf</font>
<br>

</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="right" valign="bottom">

<font face="verdana,arial,helvetica" size="1" >
<a href="report.php?s=&postid=360">Report this post to a moderator</a> | IP: <a href="postings.php?s=&action=getip&posti d=360">Logged</a> </font>
<br>

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

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

[* and end both tables.. *]

</td>
</tr>


well.. it should work on most webbbrowsers.. haven't really tried it out that much.. but it's pretty standard.. i'm almost 99% sure it works on both IE4 and NS4.5 and higher.. and i don't think you need to use divs and stuff like that or use html 4.1 stuff.. coz i mean.. it would require the whole site to be rewritten kind of.. the html works.. it's good.. but it could be improved a whole lot.. be made more efficient and look nicer.. i know my code looks like a whole lot more.. but if you added for example.. good style sheets.. and got rid of all the uneeded extra <p> and <font> tags everywhere.. in the end you would have whole lot less html code to worrie about and a much cleaner looking source.. also.. yes.. you would end up striping like 5k html tags i bet.. depending on the page i guess.. if it has many posts etc..

hope nobody gets mad at me for the bashing or whatever this was.. just trying to help .. laterz..

[blizz]

I think it's coded like that to support legacy browsers, and other browsers on other systems (although there are some really nice ones which have taken the Gecko engine and use it separately from that hog Mozilla)

plus Opera 6.0 came out today

[RatTrap]

.. Linux / Unix users don't know what their doing if they use Lynx.. and there are a lot of ok browsers for linux.. imo.. support should be given to NS4.7 and up + IE4 and up browsers.. Opera supports html 4.1 and ecma1.3 also xhtml and xml.. and can be run as IE or NS "emulator".. lets call it an emulator just for fun :p..

Mac users have more updated browsers than linux users.. and well.. there isn't much else worth mentioning.. so that about supporting legacy browsers.. hmm.. sure.. but it's not needed anymore.. the ppl who use those browsers do it coz they think it's l33t.. and how many of you think it's cool to use a browser that hardly works on any website?.. i'm into retro stuff but that's just nutz..


oh and btw.. the code i posted on is nothing new eather :p.. legacy browsers should support it just fine coz most of this stuff has been in there since html 3.x ..