WordPress inserting spaces above table

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  johnny0neiric · Member · Sep 29, 2009 at 7:29 pm

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  Hello all,

  I have created a page with some text and a table. The table is appearing ten lines below the text, although I have placed only one line between them. I have simplified the table coding as much as possible, but can’t prevent these extra lines from appearing. Please help? I would like the table to appear just below the text.

  http://vastadiem.wordpress.com/table-test/

  Thanks,
  -Johnny

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  johnny0neiric · Member · Sep 29, 2009 at 7:31 pm

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  Here’s the table code I’m using (hope the forum doesn’t try to render this code!):

  <table border=”3″ cellspacing=”3″ cellpadding=”3″>
  <tbody>
  <TR>
  <TD COLSPAN=”6″ ALIGN=”center”><I>Calendar heading</I></TD>
  </TR>

  <tr>
  <td align=”center”>Mon</td>
  <td align=”center”>Tue</td>
  <td align=”center”>Wed</td>
  <td align=”center”>Thu</td>
  <td align=”center”>Fri</td>
  <td align=”center”>Wknd</td>
  </tr>

  <TR>
  <TD ALIGN=”center” width=”67″><B>28</B>
  Performed</TD>
  <TD ALIGN=”center” width=”67″><B>29</B>
  Performed</TD>
  <TD ALIGN=”center” width=”67″><B>30</B>
  TBD</TD>
  <TD ALIGN=”center” width=”67″><B>1</B>
  TBD</TD>
  <TD ALIGN=”center” width=”67″><B>2</B>
  TBD</TD>
  <TD ALIGN=”center” width=”67″><B>3</B>
  TBD</TD>
  </TR>
  </tbody></table>

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  panaghiotisadam · Member · Sep 29, 2009 at 7:56 pm

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  Delete this from the very end of the page:
  </div>

  To prevent this from happening again, go to Settings>Writing and tick the option “WordPress should correct invalidly nested XHTML automatically”.

  PS The forum usually does render code: you must paste it between backticks.

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  johnny0neiric · Member · Sep 29, 2009 at 8:16 pm

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  Thanks! There was no `</div> for me to erase in my code, but I did tick the option that you mentioned, and re-saved the page, and now it’s working.

  Thanks again,
  -Johnny

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  panaghiotisadam · Member · Sep 29, 2009 at 8:43 pm

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  You’re welcome. (In order to reply I had to check the source code of your page: maybe I mistook a good div tag for an orphan, but since the problem was bad html anyway, the treatment you applied took care of the real culprit!)