what is causing this big space?

[ejwf]

I am running some code to output data onto a web page but between the header logo and the output I get a large blank space so that the start of the output is a long way below the header logo
Any ideas what is causing this ? I need to get rid of the 'space'
my code is;

require_once ('../mysql_connect.php');//connect to the database	
include ('../header.htm');	//show corporate header logo

$Section = $_POST['section'];

$query = "SELECT `SectionId` FROM `tblSection` WHERE `SectionName` = '$Section'";  

$result2 = mysql_query($query)  

   or die (mysql_error());  

$row2 = mysql_fetch_array($result2);  

$SectionRef = $row2["SectionId"];  

//list equipment 
$query = "SELECT (TypeRef) AS TypeRef, (SerialNo) AS SerialNo, (CommonName) AS Location, (MachineId) AS MachineId, 
(ClicksList) AS ClicksList FROM `tblMachine` WHERE SectionRef = '$SectionRef' ";  

$result11 = mysql_query($query)  

or die(mysql_error()); 

if ($result11) 
{         

echo' <form action="process.php" method="POST"> 
<table align="centre" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> 
<tr valign="top"> 
<td align="left"></td> 
<td align="left"><b>Type Ref</b></td> 
<td align="left"><b>Serial Number</b></td> 
<td align="left"><b>Location</b></td> 
<td align="right"><b>Code</b></td> 
<td align="left"></td> 
<td align="left"><b>Info</b></td> 
<td align="left"></td> 
<td align="left"></td> 
</tr valign="top">'; 

while ($row11 = mysql_fetch_array($result11,MYSQL_NUM))  

{  

echo "<tr valign=\"top\"><font face=\"Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\"> 
<td width=\"10\" align=\"left\"> <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"ClicksList\" value\"{$row11[4]}\">  </td> 
<td width=\"70\" align=\"left\"> {$row11[0]}</td> 
<td width=\"120\" align=\"left\"> {$row11[1]}</td> 
<td width=\"200\" align=\"left\"> {$row11[2]}</td> 
<td width=\"30\" align=\"right\"> {$row11[3]} </td>  "; 

if ($row11[4] == 1) 
{ 
echo "<td width=\"10\" align=\"left\"> {$row11[7]} <input type=\"text\" name=\"MachineId[]\" size=\"3\"></td> 
<td width=\"200\" align=\"left\"> {$row11[5]} BW <input type=\"text\" name=\"BWClicks[]\"></td> 
<td width=\"300\" align=\"left\"><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"CClicks[]\" value\"{NULL}\"></td><br> "; 
} 
else  

{ 
echo "<td width=\"1\" align=\"left\"> {$row11[7]} <input type=\"text\" name=\"MachineId[]\" size=\"3\"></td> 
<td width=\"200\" align=\"left\"> {$row11[5]} BW <input type=\"text\" name=\"BWClicks[]\"> </td> 
<td width=\"300\" align=\"left\"> {$row11[6]} Colour <input type=\"text\" name=\"CClicks[]\"></td><br> "; 
} 
echo "</font></tr valign=\"top\">\n";  

} //close while loop 

} //close if 

echo '</table>'; 

echo "<br><p align=\"center\"><input type=\"submit\" name=\"submit\" value=\"Submit\"> ";  

echo '</form>';

[micmac]

Hi,
It may very well be your <FORM>.
By default there is a margin. You could use CSS to rid it:

FORM {
    MARGIN: 0px;
}

[ejwf]

thanks
Any idea how to do this with Dreamweaver !!

It's weird, the longer the output list is the more lines of blank space seem to be added before the output, like for every line of output there is a blank line but all the blank lines come before the output (if that makes any sense)

[micmac]

Hi,
It will create more space if the form is in the loop.
To rid the space use the following:

<form action="process.php" method="POST" style="MARGIN: 0px;">

[ejwf]

Thanks micmac
I have tried this, but I am still getting the space......
any other ideas

TIA

[Weedpacket]

You've got <br> tags between the cells of your table. They're being rendered where they are because nothing can be rendered between table cells.