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Hi, in a template I'm using nested tables inside a cell, but I cannot removing the little spacing between the tables, basically I have a series of inline tables and I want them to seem attached together:

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How can I do that? leviathan_89 23:12, 21 April, 2012 (UTC)

This may not be the best method, but you could alter the margin size of the last two tables.

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--Dser (wall | email) 01:12, 4/22/2012

Or change the display from "inline-block" to "table-cell". --  pecoes  06:12, April 22, 2012 (UTC) 

But since IE8 and earlier don't support them I prefer to avoid it... what cause that little space between the tables? leviathan_89 11:30, 22 April, 2012 (UTC)

Try changing to another browser like Google Chrome —Sam Wang 12:05, April 22, 2012 (UTC)

He can hardly choose the browser of his wiki's visitor, Sam.

IE8 supports table-cell as far as I know. IE7 doesn't. That's true.

I think the problem with inline-blocks is they're rendered like words and then the word-spacing and the letter-spacing properties apply. This is what happens when you set both of them to "0px":

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 pecoes  12:34, April 22, 2012 (UTC) 

(Reset indent) According to Wikia's supported browsers list, IE < 8 are unsupported, so that should be no issue. No wonder no attempt has been made to support Netscape 4. TK999 13:40, April 22, 2012 (UTC)

Thanks! Those N4 screens were funny! :) --  pecoes  13:52, April 22, 2012 (UTC) 

The word and letter spacing proprieties should do the trick, I actually already tried the letter-spacing, but alone, that's why it didn't work. Thank you. leviathan_89 16:41, 22 April, 2012 (UTC)

Ooooooh. This is embarrassing. I just noticed that I accidentally copied over the margin from Dser's post :(

So, no, this doesn't work. Not all by itself. You would have to set the letter-spacing and/or word-spacing to negative values. That only works if you have a precise idea of the font-size across browsers. With this solution you run into the exact same problems you would run into with Dser's solution.

I would suggest going back to the table-cell display then. Or try something else entirely.

You could e.g. put all those tables in another table with cellspacing and cellpadding set to zero:

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Or you could float them without clearing them:

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Or do something nutty and set the font-size of the surrounding container to zero:

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There are surely more solutions... --  pecoes  17:12, April 22, 2012 (UTC) 

Ok, I'll explain better what I want to achieve: it's related to Forum:Gallery template, I have a main container (I'm using a table) and I want to add in it character mini-profiles, basically I want to replace this sort of template. I want the elements to be displayed inline, so they will adapt to the main table's width. An example:

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(I used a random image that I found here). Ok now I'm a bit lost... why now there is no spacing between the elements? I copied the first code I posted! And why in my wiki there still is a little spacing? I'll try to check my CSS... anyway seems one problem is solved, now is it possible to remove the space between the two rows? leviathan_89 17:37, 22 April, 2012 (UTC)

There aren't two rows. There's a single row that's too wide for the table and broken in two halfs. You might want to correct that first.

 pecoes  20:01, April 22, 2012 (UTC) 

No, actually I want it that way, but then is possible to remove the spcae between the two halves (or two lines depending how you consider them)? leviathan_89 20:09, 22 April, 2012 (UTC)