Large Blank Space Before Table

  • Resolved jameshart303

    (@snowboy856)


    12 years, 11 months ago

    Hi,

    I have installed TablePress on my site (http://james.shift-forwarddesign.com/experience/software-skills/) and I have inserted a table into one of my pages, but along with the table comes a large blank space which I cannot figure out how to get rid of. The space is visible in Chrome, Firefox, and Safari on Mac. The space goes away if I change the theme, and it also goes away if I use Chrome’s built-in developer tools to find the table’s .dataTables_wrapper class and removing it.

    Upon further investigation, I discovered that if I search for .dataTables_wrapper and comment both clear: both; and *zoom: 1; /* IE 7 hack, for better float clearing */ (again in Chrome’s developer tools,) the large space goes away. However, by commenting those two css items, the sort arrows and column highlighting disappear.

    Can anyone help me to sort this out?

    Thank you! 🙂

    http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tablepress/

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  • Plugin Author Tobias Bäthge

    (@tobiasbg)

    12 years, 10 months ago

    Hi,

    thanks for your question, and sorry for the late answer. As I was on vacation, I didn’t have a chance to reply earlier.

    I’ll gladly take a look at this on your site, but unfortunately, the link you posted only shows a “404 Not Found” error. Could you please post a working link again? Thanks!

    Regards,
    Tobias

    Thread Starter jameshart303

    (@snowboy856)

    12 years, 10 months ago

    Hi, sorry, lately disaster struck!

    It should work now; please try this link: http://james.shift-forwarddesign.com/resume/software-i-know/

    Thank you for your help!

    Plugin Author Tobias Bäthge

    (@tobiasbg)

    12 years, 10 months ago

    Hi,

    thanks for the new link.

    Unfortunately, I have no clue why this happens. Most likely there’s something conflicting in the HTML or CSS of the theme, although the HTML is valid, according to the HTML validator.
    I would therefore suggest to stick with removing the CSS that you already found, but not by removing from the default CSS, but by overwriting it in the “Custom CSS” on the “Plugin Options” of TablePress:

    .dataTables_wrapper,
.dataTables_wrapper .tablepress {
  clear: none !important;
}

    Regards,
    Tobias

    Thread Starter jameshart303

    (@snowboy856)

    12 years, 10 months ago

    That worked! Thanks Tobias! 🙂

    Plugin Author Tobias Bäthge

    (@tobiasbg)

    12 years, 10 months ago

    Hi,

    no problem! 🙂 Good to hear that it helped!

    Best wishes,
    Tobias

    P.S.: In case you haven’t, please rate TablePress here in the plugin directory. Thanks!

    ambreswe

    (@ambreswe)

    12 years, 5 months ago

    hi,

    I have the same issue.
    When I put in the custom css, only the search box was moved up, the table is still waaay down there :P.

    Any ideas?

    I can not link to our site since it’s internal only…
    Love the plugin 🙂

    Thanks 🙂

    esmi

    (@esmi)

    12 years, 5 months ago

    @ambreswe: If you require assistance then, as per the Forum Welcome, please post your own topic.

    Plugin Author Tobias Bäthge

    (@tobiasbg)

    12 years, 5 months ago

    Hi ambreswe,

    thanks for your question, and sorry for the trouble.

    To find out what’s going on here, I’ll need to take a look at the page with the table, so that I can inspect the code.
    If you can’t post a link here, can you maybe send it to me via email (my address is in the main plugin file “tablepress.php”)? I’ll gladly take a look then!

    Regards,
    Tobias

    ambreswe

    (@ambreswe)

    12 years, 5 months ago

    Does this help at all?
    http://pastebin.com/tVYv1U4c

    Moderator Jan Dembowski

    (@jdembowski)

    Forum Moderator and Brute Squad

    12 years, 5 months ago

    TobiasBg? You are hands down my favorite plugin author. Your support is top notch and you always help your users.

    *Jan bows in appreciation*

    How you provide support is up to you and I’m grateful for the work you do. But it really does help more people when users post their own topics.

    Plugin Author Tobias Bäthge

    (@tobiasbg)

    12 years, 5 months ago

    Hi,

    thanks! Unfortunately, it doesn’t really help 🙁 I can eliminate one possible cause from this (extra HTML <br /> tags being added due to line breaks), but to get closer to the source of this issue, I’ll need to be able to invest the page directly with my browser’s developer tools…

    Regards,
    Tobias

    ambreswe

    (@ambreswe)

    12 years, 5 months ago

    Ok. Sorry for posting in the “wrong place” and thanks Tobias for replying, but there’s just not way you can access the site, it’s not external. Thanks anyway, I’ll just use the plugin without these features.

    Plugin Author Tobias Bäthge

    (@tobiasbg)

    12 years, 5 months ago

    Hi,

    ok, I see. Sorry 🙁 I hope that the plugin is still useful for you!

    Best wishes,
    Tobias

    ambreswe

    (@ambreswe)

    12 years, 5 months ago

    It is 🙂 thanks for making a great plugin 🙂

    Plugin Author Tobias Bäthge

    (@tobiasbg)

    12 years, 5 months ago

    Hi,

    that’s good to hear 🙂 Thanks!

    Best wishes,
    Tobias

    P.S.: In case you haven’t, please rate TablePress here in the plugin directory. Thanks!

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