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HTML: love it or hate it.

HTML is a great language but sometimes designing web applications drives you nuts. Last week I had an issue with a menu list I created in a website. For a strange reason it always showed two pixels of whitespace between each menu item. Whatever I did or changed in the CSS, nothing seemed to work. Same issue for Firefox and IE.

The HTML looked something like this:

   1:  <ul>
   2:         <li><a href="#">Home</a></li>
   3:         <li><a href="#">File</a></li>
   4:         <li><a href="#">Project</a></li>
   5:         <li><a href="#">Build</a></li>
   6:  </ul>
   7:   

By accident I found out that putting the li on one line did the trick.


   1:  <ul>
   2:        <li><a href="#">Home</a></li><li><a href="#">File</a></li><li><a href="#">Project</a></li><li><a href="#">Build</a></li>
   3:  </ul>

It were a very expensive 2 pixels…

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