getting undesired white space on site

Try adding margin: 0; (or margin-top: 0;) to #suckerfishnav, #suckerfishnav ul {}

OK, just to be sure...am I adding this to the #suckerfishnav definition within the plugin settings, or am I editing the .php file where it seems to exist in several places?

I'm really hoping it's the former; the admin_page.php file is unformatted and appears as though it's not to be touched by novice hands such as mine.

Thanks.

Update: I edited it in the settings, and it gave me the desired results. Thanks! Now I'm curious, though...shouldn't 0 be the default margin? There's no way I know of for Developer to tell me the settings, but I just thought...

No. If margins were zeroed by default then unstyled sites would just be one huge block of text. This is the reason for CSS reset but, as discussed here, it's just not a great idea to zero everything.

I can't decode what your trying to say.

What I meant was, I'm using the Web Developer Plugin for Firefox as my troubleshooting tool. It reveals the CSS and style information, but I don't know of a way to use it to reveal all settings (including defaults) of a particular web object (like my navigation menu).

I don't know if such a tool exists, but it would be kind of handy if it did.

Thanks again for the help.

You can get the Firebug tool. It will show you all styles related to an element and it will have a line crossed out of those that have been overwritten by one with higher specificity.

Right, but it won't (as far as I know) tell you the *undefined* (ie, default) properties. It just tells you those that are defined in your CSS. Or, am I all wet on this?

(duplicate posting deleted.)

If it's anything like Opera's Dragonfly (and I think it is) then it does exactly that:

The default settings of any element are not, so far as I know, defined by the CSS standard, but rather is a decision of the designer for each individual browser. A little google searching will tell you where the default style sheet of any particular browser can be found. Locate that and read through it and you will know how that browser does things. You will find that most of them are very similar.

For instance a simple query to google on "default css firefox" returned this link as it's first hit.

Thanks, Ed...that was very helpful.

OK, so now that "gap" has been eliminated in Firefox, but..not in Safari, Opera or Chrome. I don't know whether this cracks me up or ticks me off.

Any ideas?

It seems to be working in Opera for me.

Did you put margin: 0; in
#suckerfishnav {}

or in
#suckerfishnav, #suckerfishnav ul {} as suggested?

Right you are...it mysteriously began working shortly after I posted that. Deus ex machina...

Doh.

Corrected.

I think we can consider this issue resolved. Thanks to all who participated.