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I’m able to style the {category_name}, but it always parses with a bunch of spaces before the category name.

Any ideas?

If excessive spaces are causing trouble, try removing them from your template:

{categories show_group="1"}{category_image}<a href="http://{path=MYDOMAIN.COM/{category_url_title}/{category_id}">{category_name}</a>{/categories}

I tried that, still no change. :(

Please paste HTML it’s generating here and I’ll take another look.

Code

TAGS:
      {categories show_group="1"}
       <a href="http://{site_global_url}news_/category/{category_url_title}/{category_id}">{category_name},</a>
      {/categories}
     

(Tried removing all the breaks and spaces)

HTML it’s generating

TAGS:
      
       <a href="http://MYDOMAIN.COM/index.php/news_/category/architectural/4">ARCHITECTURAL,</a>
      
       <a href="http://MYDOMAIN.COM/index.php/news_/category/graphics/22">GRAPHICS,</a>
      
       <a href="http://MYDOMAIN.COM/index.php/news_/category/institutional/12">INSTITUTIONAL,</a>
      
       <a href="http://MYDOMAIN.COM/index.php/news_/category/special_features/16">SPECIAL FEATURES,</a>
      
     

The breaks/spaces in your template will create the breaks and spaces in your HTML; if you don’t want them in the HTML, don’t put them in your template.

Paste this into your template, clear the EE cache, and post the resulting HTML.

TAGS: {categories show_group="1"}<a href="http://{site_global_url}news_/category/{category_url_title}/{category_id}">{category_name}, </a>{/categories}

HTML doesn’t work that way. If you have more than one space without the

tags or a new paragraph.

Regardless, here’s the generated HTML but the issue remains:

TAGS: <a href="http://MYDOMAIN.COM/index.php/news_/category/architectural/4">ARCHITECTURAL, </a><a href="http://MYDOMAIN.COM/index.php/news_/category/graphics/22">GRAPHICS, </a><a href="http://MYDOMAIN.COM/index.php/news_/category/institutional/12">INSTITUTIONAL, </a><a href="http://MYDOMAIN.COM/index.php/news_/category/special_features/16">SPECIAL FEATURES, </a>

I’m able to style the {category_name}, but it always parses with a bunch of spaces before the category name.

Regardless, here’s the generated HTML but the issue remains:

TAGS: <a href="http://MYDOMAIN.COM/index.php/news_/category/architectural/4">ARCHITECTURAL, </a><a href="http://MYDOMAIN.COM/index.php/news_/category/graphics/22">GRAPHICS, </a><a href="http://MYDOMAIN.COM/index.php/news_/category/institutional/12">INSTITUTIONAL, </a><a href="http://MYDOMAIN.COM/index.php/news_/category/special_features/16">SPECIAL FEATURES, </a>

HTML doesn’t work that way. If you have more than one space without the

it is ignored, and breaks aren’t generated without

tags or a new paragraph.

For the reasons that you described, the HTML generated by EE looks perfectly fine.

I suspect the spaces you see aren’t actually spaces, but padding/margin/border from your CSS.

That’s a possibility as I am fixing someone else’s work right now. I will investigate the CSS further. Thank you for the help!

Hi zavio,

It does indeed sound like it points to a CSS rule as Nick has troubleshooted for you. Let us know the results of your investigation