Hi,

I've noticed that with some themes, module text will have inconsistent spacing. There will be extra long spaces between some words, and an extra long space beween the first line and second line of a paragraph (almost as if there is an extra line). This problem primarily occurs with Internet Explorer, and not with Firefox. The problem doesn't occur in custom blocks that have static text.

I'm just wondering what could be causing this. It really is very bad in some otherwise great themes, which forces me to not use the theme. I'm not really sure if it is a module issue or theme issue, where something is incompatible.

Just wondering if anyone else has noticed this.

By the way, the space problem disappears when I create an html table and put the text into the table. The spacing issue may be a problem with the auto format feature. It really isn't a huge problem, but it is a lot easier to not have to create an html table when I want to add a new submission to a module.

Dave

Theme purists prefer not to use tables...

The problems you are seeing are easily fixed in css.

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It could be an issue related to the way some table based themes are constructed, since some of the table based themes don't have the spacing problem. The weird thing is that the problem is occuring only within some modules (such as smartsection, AMS, News, etc). There is not a problem with any custom blocks (with static text) that I make, or with other modules such as wiwimod.

Inputting article text within an html table format (rather than using autoformat) is the only thing that seems to stop the spacing problem. I tried changing different values in the CSS, but that didn't help.

Maybe I should look for themes that are completely CSS based.

Dave