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 | This page in a nutshell: Text gaps may appear on certain browsers, but not on others. Be careful to avoid accidentally creating them. |
There are techniques to avoid text gaps, an issue that may appear in formatted pages on certain browsers. Note well: there exist automagical templates to fix text gaps caused by image/template stacking, see Template:Stack begin for basic instructions.
Text-gaps are most likely to occur only in browsers similar to Internet Explorer (IE6, IE7, IE8,...), where a large blank area will occur to the left of an image located a few lines below an upper image (or infobox). Typically, a text-gap can be closed by moving the image (from alongside the text-gap area) to be directly stacked below the higher image (or infobox). Another solution might be to set the lower image as "|thumb|left" to display the image at the left-side margin, allowing text to wrap and fill to close the gap. Users running the Firefox browser, Google Chrome 9 or Opera 11.01 (or similar) will not experience the text-gap problem. Hence, those users might have no idea that users of IE browsers are seeing a large text-gap beside the image.