IE7 cause of “Text - Empty Text Node”

Question

I\'m using the IE web developer toolbar to troubleshoot an issue. A blank white space is appearing below a list item, and I can\'t logically figure out why. Using the web dev

Answer 1

I've seen this occur with images surrounded by empty divs as well in which this ugly "text node" was creating whitespace that pushed the div below it down.

The solution that worked for me was to wrap the image in a div: