Tau_Cetacean
HTML I typed:
[[SCOTUS|Supreme Court]] of the [[United States of America]], commonly known as [[SCOTUS]], is the highest court in the judicial branch of the [[United States of America]]
{snipping a whole bunch of crap}
what I get:
a vast chasm of white space between the opening text and the table (e.g. a chronological history of SCOTUS cases and appointments)
what am I missing here? is there some html or textile code to force the white space to go away? some bug in the table code that could cause a vast white space in front of the table?
Comments
entries between the p element and the table.
Not sure what might cause them to be added yet. This requires further testing.
but I am getting 504 timeout errors whenever try to delete the SCOTUS page, even after I've a) deleted the text in both the wiki section and the GM only section and b) saved the empty page
I've seen this behaviour before, mostly when there's space between the table elements. OP seems to take every line break (even in HTML) as a requirement for a (so long as there isn't a closing tag on the page). I've not tracked it, and I'm mostly going by memory - so try removing the whitespace where possible and see if the problem persists.
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@America]]@
or like this:
@America]]
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[[December 2016]][[Lame Duck]] [[Senate (US)|Senate]] confirms [[Merrick Garland]], establishing a 5-4 [[Liberalism|Liberal]] majority
and no problem
add:
*Liberals**Conservatives*[[Ruth Bader Ginsburg]][[Anthony Kennedy]][[Stephen Breyer]][[Clarence Thomas]][[Sonia Sotomayor]][[John Roberts]][[Elena Kagan]][[Samuel Alito]][[Merrick Garland]]
within the second cell (or as the second cell of a different row)
and suddenly you get vast chasm of white space above the table, way before, like before the ratification of the constitution, Maybury v Madison, etc.
...
I've found table errors tend to add tons of white space to the display. If you remove it, does the white space reduce any?
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Adding in every ? Not sure that will do anything (other than take time to do).
Sounds like you found a bug. It might be related to the empty cells more than anything else. Do you have a page I could check? The generated CSS (what you see on the page as opposed to what you wrote for your site) might explain a few things.
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I'll send you an invite into the campaign
I need to look at this again a bit more closely.
Anyone else care to chime in?
I'll post more tonight.
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I alternate rows so that the text appears on the gray background cells (since it alternates between white and gray background cells) and shows up better (IMO)
also... is there a way of coding it so inserted images have a thin black line as a border? (I mainly ask for the flags of nations which include a large amount of white which will show up against a white background, unless I guess I insert all flags inside a table... I could add these borders in photoshop, but looking for something less... tedious)
It seems you have found a bug.
Regardless of blank lines or table-rows (rows with empty cells), if you add a subtable (anywhere in the parent table), extra space is generated above and below the parent table.
I can recreate the bug using a simple two row, two column table on my site.
If you want all the rows to be grey with a white border, that can be created in CSS.
As to border images:
bc.. img {
padding:1px;
border:1px solid black;
}
p. Remove the padding line to bring the border tight to the image.
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http://help.obsidianportal.com/discussions/problems/20817-table-bug-creates-white-space
https://nanopunk.obsidianportal.com/wikis/russian-federation
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"_A gas station masquerading as a country_" ~ [[United States of America|US]] [[Senate (US)|Senator]] [[John McCain]] on [[Russia]]
Polity in [[Russia]] lasting from [[1992]] to [[2023]]
}}
results in a lot of what space between the pre-table elements and the table, whereas:
{{
"_A gas station masquerading as a country_" ~ [[United States of America|US]] [[Senate (US)|Senator]] [[John McCain]] on [[Russia]]
Polity in [[Russia]] lasting from [[1992]] to [[2023]]
}}
does not?