Question:
Consider the following HTML:
<html>
<head></head>
<body>
<div style="float:left;">
<div style="background-color: Red; padding-top: 2mm; padding-bottom: 2mm;">
Dock: Usage controls/symbol list here
</div>
<div style="height: 300px; background-color: Khaki; display:block; float:left; overflow: scroll;">
<ul style="background-color: White; float: left; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; padding-left: 30px; padding-right: 10px;">
<li>
<a href="Folders/Content/Inbox" target="ifrmFolderContent" >
Posteingang / Inbox
</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="Folders/Content/Drafts" target="ifrmFolderContent" >
Entwürfe / Drafts
</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="Folders/Content/Sent Items" target="ifrmFolderContent" >
Gesendet / Sent Items
</a>
</li>
<li>
Archiv / Archive
</li>
<li>
Papierkorb / Trash
</li>
<li>
Junk / Crap
</li>
<li>
Scam
</li>
<li>
Spam
</li>
<li>
Virus
</li>
<li>
Abrufen / Send & Receive
</li>
<li>
Verfassen / Compose
</li>
<li>
Adressbuch / Address book
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div style="width: 400px; height: 300px; background-color: Green; display:block; float:left; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">
<iframe marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" name="ifrmFolderContent" src="http://www.yahoo.com" frameborder="0" style="overflow: none; width: 400px; height: 150px; background-color: Orange; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">
Folder Content
</iframe>
<iframe marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" name="ifrmEmail" src="http://www.msn.com" frameborder="0" style="overflow: none; width: 400px; height: 150px; background-color: Orange; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">
E-Mail Content
</iframe>
</div>
<div style="background-color: Indigo; padding-top: 2mm; padding-bottom: 2mm; clear: left;">
Copyright here
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
It renders exactly as one would expect (Chrome + IE8).
But now, I add:
<!DOCTYPE html>
on top of it.
And suddenly, I get 2 to 5 mm of green space between the two iframe
s (folder content / email content), in both Chrome and IE8 (haven't tested FireFox).
What is even more disturbing, there seems to be no way to get rid of this space (except from removing <!DOCTYPE html>
.
Why? I mean, the green comes from the background-color
of the parent element, but why is there some space between the two iframe
s ?