Space looks like blank menu item - formatting?

[amccorm]

I have a Blank Menu Item in my TOC sidebar where there shouldn't be one
http://www.miniaturedonkeys.ca/cms2 this is the site and you can see on the Our Herd there is a menu space before it gets to Pets for Sale it is also there when I expand the menu but do nto know how to get rid of it...any one have any suggestions? It looks like a blank H1 to be but I cannot find it in my downloaded content htm page. So it is not that...

[Gert]

Hallo,

you have created a page with the Heading " " (empty space as haeding).

Log in, click the empty space and delete the "empty space heading" or overwrite the empty space with a normal word,

Gert

PS: Wow, what a sourcecode

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<td width="553" valign="top" bgcolor="#003E28"> <h1 style="text-align: center; "><img alt="donkeys on a path" width="500" height="128" src="./images/Untitled-1.jpg">&#160;</h1> 

[amccorm]

I found the error with the code inspector...what do you mean wow source code lol...1st time using CMSimple really is there more I should do? What did I screw up lol.

[cmb]

Hi amccorm,

is there more I should do? What did I screw up

I guess Gert is refering to the <img> that was nested in a <h1>, which did otherwise contain a &nbsp; only. So the heading contains no text -- but just an image. But the reason for using a heading (<hX>) usually is to markup some text as heading. Consider a book with chapter headings, that consist only of images -- that might not result in a reasonable table of contents. And AFAIK search engines will interpret it the same way. So choose a reasonable text as heading for a page, and keep images out of the heading. If you want to have an image beside the heading, use the CSS float property.

N.B.: these "rules" are not particularly necessary for CMSimple -- IMO that's just a matter of the use of semantic markup.

Christoph

[Gert]

Hallo accorm,

as Christoph wrote, I meant the image inside <h1> ... </h1>. Perhaps you have tried to use a image for the Menu? Thats not possible with the normal Menu of CMSimple.

And I wanted to show you the reason for your problem (and help you to find it) by posting the responsible sourcecode

Gert

[amccorm]

no I had no intention of using image for a menu item lol thanks for the help though it is appreciated.

can CMSimple make use of Css3 HTML5 type layouts? Right now I am just using tables to build this site (as you can see) and the dreamweaver plugin for the code

[cmb]

Hi amccorm,

can CMSimple make use of Css3 HTML5 type layouts? Right now I am just using tables to build this site (as you can see) and the dreamweaver plugin for the code

CSS3 and HTML5 shouldn't be a problem for CMSimple_XH's core. If plugins produce valid HTML5 output depends on the plugins. But you can use <div> based layouts with HTML 4.x/XHTML 1.x already.

Christoph