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CSS: closing spacing between elements

Asked by michaelshavel in Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), Extensible HTML (XHTML)

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Hi,

I'm playing around with CSS, trying to get a better understanding of it. All the coding I'm doing is by hand, I'm not using Dreamweaver or some such tool -- just plain VI and a text document.

Here's the thing; whenever I create new elements, they have a space between them. I've included the complete code of a simple example of this.  So, in the example I've attached I'd like the links "link1 link2 and link3" area to butt up against the bottom of the "top1, top2, etc" bar.

I'm guessing it has to do with margins. I have tried using negative margins and it worked fine using FireFox on a Mac. But when I switched over the IE and FireFox on Windows, the 'spacing' that I thought I fixed just looked really crammed together.

This must be a common problem... I'm hoping.
Thanks!
mike
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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
<title>test</title>
 
<style type="text/css">
 body {
 font-family: small Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
 margin: 0 0 0 0;
 }
 
 a {
 text-decoration:none;
 }
 
 a img { border: 0;
 }
 
#midnavlinks {
background-color: #88813b;
height: 25px;
width: 702px;
margin-top: 0;
margin-left: 80px;
 
 
}
 
#midnavlinks li {
display: inline;
list-style: none;
height: 30px;
margin-left: .5em;
margin-bottom: 10px;
border-right: 1px solid #FFF; padding-right: .75em;
border-bottom: none;
color:#FFFFFF;
 
 }
#midnavlinks li.last {
border-right: 0;
}
 
#midnavlinks ol.listlinks  {
margin-left: 3em;
padding-top: 0.25em;
}
 
#leftmenulist li  {
list-style: none;
margin-left: 40px;
margin-right: 626px;
background-color: #d0cdaa;
}
 
</style>
</head>
 
<body>
<div id="midnavlinks">
  <ol class="listlinks">
    <li class="first">top1</li>
    <li>top2</li>
    <li>top3</li>
    <li>top4</li>
    <li class="last">top5</li>
    </ol>
 
</div>
<div id="leftmenu">
  <ol id=leftmenulist>
    <li>link1</li>
    <li>link2</li>
    <li>link3</li>
</ol>
</div>
</body>
</html>
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