Rails - May 2006 - link_to CSS problem

Hi all,

I''m a Ruby/Rails/web development newbie, so this may be a stupid 
question. I''m putting some links using link_to into my rhtml page, 
creating the layout using the DIV tag:

<div id="description">
   <%= link_to h (item.description), :action => ''show'',
:id => item.id
%>
</div>

...

div#description {
  float: left;
  width: 75%;
  height: 20%;
}

If I put regular text in there instead of a link_to, then the text 
appears right next to the border of the div, which is what I want. But 
if I put a link_to in there, it has a huge margin that I don''t 
understand where it''s coming from.

Another (related) issue that I have, is that if I have two link_to''s in
there, they appear on separate lines. Is there a way to put have them on 
the same line?

Thanks a lot!

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On May 23, 2006, at 6:03 PM, zavulon wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I''m a Ruby/Rails/web development newbie, so this may be a stupid
> question. I''m putting some links using link_to into my rhtml page,
> creating the layout using the DIV tag:
>
> <div id="description">
>    <%= link_to h (item.description), :action =>
''show'', :id => item.id
> %>
> </div>
>
> ...
>
> div#description {
>   float: left;
>   width: 75%;
>   height: 20%;
> }
>
> If I put regular text in there instead of a link_to, then the text
> appears right next to the border of the div, which is what I want. But
> if I put a link_to in there, it has a huge margin that I don''t
> understand where it''s coming from.
>
> Another (related) issue that I have, is that if I have two  
> link_to''s in
> there, they appear on separate lines. Is there a way to put have  
> them on
> the same line?
>
> Thanks a lot!
>
Hey Zavulon-

	The standard <%= %>  tags will always put a newline "\n" in the
stream of text they get evaluated into. In order to not emit a  
newline use tags like this:  <%=  -%>  the -  tells erb not to put a  
newline there.


Cheers-
-Ezra