I’ve spent the last 3 hours debugging the most inane little bug. Its driving me crazy. I have a series of divs in the normal flow and for some reason there’s this unexplainable block of blank space between them. There’s nothing in the CSS that is setting any kind of top or bottom margins, there are no line breaks anywhere, there’s just absolutely nothing I can find that is causing this danged space to be showing up. The only way to “fix” it (if you can call it that) is to set the margin-top of each div to be roughly -22px. This pulls each div up to where it should be, but that kinda crap aint gonna fly around here. There HAS to be a reason its doing this, I just can’t find it.

I hate days like these. Sometimes I come in and I just fly, complex things end up being super simple. Then there are days like today where I rack my brain for hours on end, with nothing to show for it.

At times like these, its important to just stop. Do something else. Something completely unrelated. I got up, got some water, had a sandwich, and am now working on something else. I’ll probably have a dream tonight about how to fix it or whats wrong, which oddly enough happens quite often.


One Response to “When Codings got you down”  

  1. 1 Steven

    I ran into something similar with unordered lists in HTML. IE was adding huge vertical spaces between each list item. I had no idea why.

    All the racking in the world wouldn’t have fixed it though. It turned out to be an IE bug that required the Holly Hack.

    Of course, you’re just talking about FF right.

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