Reducing the spacing between buttons

[setishock]

Referencing the attached picture which is my buttons from a post. How would I reduce the spacing between them to 0? I'd like it to look like the buttons are on one continuous background strip.

[Jose Amaral Rego]

# template: postbits
# Find <!-- controls -->
# remove all white spaces between all image links
# eg.
Before

			<!-- controls -->
			<if condition="$post['editlink']">
				<img style="display: none" id="progress_$postid" src="$stylevar[imgdir_misc]/progress.gif" alt="$vbphrase[loading_editor_please_wait]" />
				<a href="$post[editlink]" name="vB::QuickEdit::$post[postid]"><img src="$stylevar[imgdir_button]/edit.gif" alt="$vbphrase[edit_delete_message]" border="0" /></a>
			</if>
			<if condition="$post['forwardlink']">
				<a href="$post[forwardlink]"><img src="$stylevar[imgdir_button]/forward.gif" alt="$vbphrase[forward_message]" border="0" /></a>
			</if>
			<if condition="$post['replylink']">
				<a href="$post[replylink]" rel="nofollow"><img src="$stylevar[imgdir_button]/<if condition="$post['forwardlink']">reply_small<else />quote</if>.gif" alt="$vbphrase[reply_with_quote]" border="0" /></a>
			</if>
			<if condition="$show['multiquote_post']">
				<a href="$post[replylink]" rel="nofollow" onclick="return false"><img src="$stylevar[imgdir_button]/multiquote_<if condition="$show['multiquote_selected']">on<else />off</if>.gif" alt="$vbphrase[multi_quote_this_message]" border="0" id="mq_$post[postid]" /></a>
			</if>
			<if condition="$show['quickreply'] AND !$show['threadedmode']">
				<a href="$post[replylink]" rel="nofollow" id="qr_$post[postid]" onclick="return false"><img src="$stylevar[imgdir_button]/quickreply.gif" alt="$vbphrase[quick_reply_to_this_message]" border="0" /></a>
			</if>

After

			<!-- controls -->
			<if condition="$post['editlink']"><img style="display: none" id="progress_$postid" src="$stylevar[imgdir_misc]/progress.gif" alt="$vbphrase[loading_editor_please_wait]" /><a href="$post[editlink]" name="vB::QuickEdit::$post[postid]"><img src="$stylevar[imgdir_button]/edit.gif" alt="$vbphrase[edit_delete_message]" border="0" /></a></if><if condition="$post['forwardlink']"><a href="$post[forwardlink]"><img src="$stylevar[imgdir_button]/forward.gif" alt="$vbphrase[forward_message]" border="0" /></a></if><if condition="$post['replylink']"><a href="$post[replylink]" rel="nofollow"><img src="$stylevar[imgdir_button]/<if condition="$post['forwardlink']">reply_small<else />quote</if>.gif" alt="$vbphrase[reply_with_quote]" border="0" /></a></if><if condition="$show['multiquote_post']"><a href="$post[replylink]" rel="nofollow" onclick="return false"><img src="$stylevar[imgdir_button]/multiquote_<if condition="$show['multiquote_selected']">on<else />off</if>.gif" alt="$vbphrase[multi_quote_this_message]" border="0" id="mq_$post[postid]" /></a></if><if condition="$show['quickreply'] AND !$show['threadedmode']"><a href="$post[replylink]" rel="nofollow" id="qr_$post[postid]" onclick="return false"><img src="$stylevar[imgdir_button]/quickreply.gif" alt="$vbphrase[quick_reply_to_this_message]" border="0" /></a></if>

I would of just added in a background image, but this does the job... Ewww!

[setishock]

Can't put a background behind them as they are sitting on a gradient background of thier own. They would still have the same issue.
But thanks for the info. I'll check it out.

[setishock]

That did not work. Good thing I made a copy of that template.
Any one else really know how to kill the spacing in between the buttons?

[Zachery]

Can you provide a link to where this code is so we can see it for ourselfs? Without seeing the html code it is impossible to help.

[Jose Amaral Rego]

http://animeappeal.com/forums/index.php?styleid=57

user: demotest
pw: qazxcv

Firefox/IE8 seems ok, as the spaces between are gone today.

That was only an example of what to do..(eg.)

[setishock]

A friend of mine Buzzstpoint from ComputerVitals took your code example and ran with it and it worked.
In light of that it appears I did something wrong and got cross about it when I shouldn't have. Working with code for me is not easy and every time I do something it's a learning experience.
Therefore I own you an apology. I am sorry about my knee jerk response and hope you can over look it.
Thank you for your help.

[ComputerVitals]

Yeah,

Thanks Jose

Removing the whitespace worked.