Huge blank space at top of page

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    peroron2000 · Member ·

    I have added a separate page to my blog that consists of only an html table. When I previewed the table it looked fine, but when I published it the page now has more than a full page worth of blank space before you get to my table. Does anyone know why this blank space is inserted or how I can get rid of it?(blog address: http://peroron2000.wordpress.com)

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    dreamsburnred · Member ·

    WordPress.com removes advanced html (scripting) needed for the table I assume.

    It’s for security reasons.

    “WordPress.com allows the following HTML code in your posts, pages, and widgets:

    address, a, abbr, acronym, area, b, big, blockquote, br, caption, cite, class, code, col, del, dd, div, dl, dt, em, font, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, hr, i, img, ins, kbd, li, map, ol, p, pre, q, s, span, strike, strong, sub, sup, table, tbody, td, tfoot, tr, tt, ul, var”

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    mascaren7 · Member ·

    wordpress.com allows only some html codes…..

    i m not sure about ur one…

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    panaghiotisadam · Member ·

    @peroron2000: I’d like to know how you created that table – it’s got various sorts of bad code. Here’s a cleaned-up version of it for you to paste into the html post editor: 

    <table border="1" bgcolor="#88ffff">
<tbody>
<tr>
<th bgcolor="#00bbbb"></th>
<th bgcolor="#00bbbb">Sales</th>
<th bgcolor="#00bbbb">Avg List<br />Price</th>
<th bgcolor="#00bbbb">Avg Sale<br />Price</th>
<th bgcolor="#00bbbb">List Price<br />/Sale Price %</th>
<th bgcolor="#00bbbb">Avg Days<br />on Mkt</th>
<th bgcolor="#00bbbb">Sales Price
<tr>
<td bgcolor="#88ff88" align="middle">J-10</td>
<td align="middle">0</td>
<td align="middle">-</td>
<td align="middle">-</td>
<td align="middle">-</td>
<td align="middle">-</td>
<td align="middle">-</td>
</tr><tr>
<td bgcolor="#88ff88" align="middle">D-09</td>
<td align="middle">3</td>
<td align="middle">$121,634</td>
<td align="middle">$117,800</td>
<td align="middle">103.25%</td>
<td align="middle">55</td>
<td align="middle">$85.00</td>
</tr><tr>
<td bgcolor="#88ff88" align="middle">N-09</td>
<td align="middle">6</td>
<td align="middle">$140,538</td>
<td align="middle">$138,000</td>
<td align="middle">98.19%</td>
<td align="middle">107</td>
<td align="middle">$92.00</td>
</tr><tr>
<td bgcolor="#88ff88" align="middle">O-09</td>
<td align="middle">1</td>
<td align="middle">$114,000</td>
<td align="middle">$118,000</td>
<td align="middle">102.71%</td>
<td align="middle">12</td>
<td align="middle">$83.00</td>
</tr><tr>
<td bgcolor="#88ff88" align="middle">S-09</td>
<td align="middle">4</td>
<td align="middle">$131,175</td>
<td align="middle">$131,250</td>
<td align="middle">100.06%</td>
<td align="middle">99</td>
<td align="middle">$81.47</td>
</tr><tr>
<td bgcolor="#88ff88" align="middle">A-09</td>
<td align="middle">3</td>
<td align="middle">$120,700</td>
<td align="middle">$116,633</td>
<td align="middle">96.63%</td>
<td align="middle">181</td>
<td align="middle">$82.00</td>
</tr><tr>
<td bgcolor="#88ff88" align="middle">J-09</td>
<td align="middle">5</td>
<td align="middle">$146,900</td>
<td align="middle">$143,030</td>
<td align="middle">97.37%</td>
<td align="middle">68</td>
<td align="middle">$93.00</td>
</tr><tr>
<td bgcolor="#88ff88" align="middle">J-09</td>
<td align="middle">4</td>
<td align="middle">$129,413</td>
<td align="middle">$125,975</td>
<td align="middle">97.34%</td>
<td align="middle">57</td>
<td align="middle">$85.00</td>
</tr><tr>
<td bgcolor="#88ff88" align="middle">M-09</td>
<td align="middle">3</td>
<td align="middle">$141,567</td>
<td align="middle">$136,800</td>
<td align="middle">96.63%</td>
<td align="middle">194</td>
<td align="middle">$81.00</td>
</tr><tr>
<td bgcolor="#88ff88" align="middle">A-09</td>
<td align="middle">4</td>
<td align="middle">$134,875</td>
<td align="middle">$133,375</td>
<td align="middle">98.89%</td>
<td align="middle">64</td>
<td align="middle">$92.00</td>
</tr><tr>
<td bgcolor="#88ff88" align="middle">M-09</td>
<td align="middle">1</td>
<td align="middle">$115,000</td>
<td align="middle">$114,000</td>
<td align="middle">99.13%</td>
<td align="middle">8</td>
<td align="middle">$92.00</td>
</tr><tr>
<td bgcolor="#88ff88" align="middle">F-09</td>
<td align="middle">1</td>
<td align="middle">$115,500</td>
<td align="middle">$113,000</td>
<td align="middle">97.84%</td>
<td align="middle">58</td>
<td align="middle">$69.16</td></tr>
</th></tr></tbody></table>
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    designsimply · Member ·

    @peroron2000 What is happening is that WordPress.com is interpreting each HTML line from your table as a new paragraph because the HTML is not strictly correct.

    If you use the correctly formatted HTML from @panaghiotisadam then it will work properly.

    Also, if you check the option on the Settings > Writing page that says “WordPress should correct invalidly nested XHTML automatically” and re-save the page, WordPress.com will try to correct the code for you, and the extra lines will go away.

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    peroron2000 · Member ·

    Thank you to everyone for your help with this, espcially @panaghiotisadam
    for the coding help and designsimply. I cut and pasted the code provided and I made the suggested changes to the write section of my settings and this did get rid of the blank space above my table but for some reason wordpress now deletes the second line of my header. It does leave the space in that row of table but it deletes any text that is supposed to be on the second line along with the
    tag. I tried re-typing the text back into the code along with the tags and added a
    tag at the end but wordpress deleted it again. Any suggestions on why this is happening and how I can prevent it? Thanks again.

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    markpenrith · Member ·

    Thanks guys and girls. First time the forums have resolved something for me on first pass. Well done!

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