I figured it out - it was the <h3> that was left over before I made the table style. I've deleted those and it now works.
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Kathryn Rhinehart Bassett (Pasadena CA)
"Genealogy is my bag" "GH is my soap"
kathryn@bassett.net
http://bassett.net

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kathryn Bassett [mailto:kathryn@bassett.net]
> Sent: 11 Nov 2002 7:36:PM
> To: Dreamweaver Talk
> Subject: RE: CSS & table row height
>
>
> Al Sparber- PVII replied:
> > Tables do not accept margin properties... they do accept padding
> > properties. Row heights adapt based on the height of adjacent cells vis
> > a vis their content.
>
> But that doesn't answer the question of why, in this case, the height is so much?
> There's only one row in the table, one line of text, so one cell isn't any higher
> than another. My understanding of "vertical-align: middle;" is that the line of text
> should be vertically in the center of the cell, and even that isn't happening.
> *Something* is making the cells the equivalent of two lines of text high, but what?
>
> --
> Kathryn Rhinehart Bassett (Pasadena CA)
> "Genealogy is my bag" "GH is my soap"
> kathryn@bassett.net
> http://bassett.net
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: dreamweaver@blueworld.com [mailto:dreamweaver@blueworld.com]On
> > Behalf Of Al Sparber
> > Sent: 11 Nov 2002 7:08:PM
> > To: Dreamweaver Talk
> > Subject: Re: CSS & table row height
> >
> >
> > Kathryn Bassett wrote:
> > > I've got a one row table and it's too thick.
> > > Here's my css code for the table at http://lincav.net/header.htm:
> > > table {
> > > background-image: url(images/wood512x90.jpg);
> > > font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
> > > font-size: 12px;
> > > font-style: normal;
> > > font-weight: bold;
> > > border: none;
> > > vertical-align: middle;
> > > margin: 1px;
> > > }
> > >
> > > I've left a 1 pixel margin just so it's easy to see where the header
> > > image stops and the table begins. I want the row height of the table
> > > to "fit" the text height. IOW, why is their so much space under the
> > > text? There should be the same amount of space *below* the word Home
> > > as there is *above* the word Home.
>


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