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.

<div class="top"></div>
<img src="image.jpg" />
<div class="bottom"></div>

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

<div class="top"></div>
<div><img src="image.jpg" /></div>
<div class="bottom"></div>

Answer 2

i have faced a similar issue in tag in IE7, the solution is same as above guy who fixed