I have a <div>
on a webpage which ends up with a calculated height property of 633px. This is not set in any cascading style sheet, inline or not, nor is it set in a javascript. I have searched everywhere in my code but the number 633 does not show up anywhere. I can solve this by setting style="height: 420px;"
which is the height that I want, but IE seems to override this to the 633px that I would get in other browsers too by default. I have verified in both Google Chrome and Firefox/Firebug that the actual contents of the div are nowhere near 633 pixels high. Is there any way I can find out what the reason is for this calculated height? For completeness, here is what Google Chrome reports as the style properties of the <div>
.
Computed Style
background-color: white;
display: block;
float: left;
height: 633px;
margin-left: 30px;
margin-top: 20px;
padding-bottom: 0px;
padding-left: 0px;
padding-right: 0px;
padding-top: 0px;
width: 830px;
Inline Style Attribute
margin-left: 30px;
margin-top: 20px;
#overview
background-color: white;
float: left;
padding: 0px;
width: 830px;
#overview, #overviewempty
margin-top: 9px; (is crossed out)
div
display: block;
Thanks in advance.
Edit:
The div in questions contains two div's, one with one line of text in font-size: 16px;
, and a div with a height of 367px.
Another edit:
Okay, so I figured out what's causing this. The second div that the main div contains, contains one image, and a div that's floating over the right of that image, using position: relative; top: -335px;
. Internet Explorer keeps the space where this element would have been blank. Any way around that?
Final edit:
Solved it! I wrapped the contents of the floating div with position: relative
in a second div with position: absolute
, that gets rid of the whitespace under the main image :) Final HTML looks something like this:
<div id="overview">
<div>Some text>
<div>
<img src="someImage.jpg">
<div style="float: right; position: relative; top: -335px;">
<div style="position: absolute; top: 0px; left: 0px; background-color: white; width: 365px;">
Some floating contents
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
In the same vein as the IE Developer Toolbar, have a look at Firebug for Firefox.
That will tell you all of the styles that apply to an element, and show you which ones have been overridden.