Extra spacing between menu items in IE6

I have attached what it looks like in Firefox 1.5

I was able to fix the problem by replacing this:

/* lists, menu */

ul, ul.menu, .item-list ul {
  margin: 0 0 .5em 0;
  padding: 0 0 0 0.5em;
}

ul li, ul.menu li, .item-list ul li {
  margin: 0 0 0 1em;
  padding: 0;
  list-style: circle url(images/menu-leaf.gif);
}

ul li.expanded, ul.menu li.expanded, .item-list ul li.expanded {
  list-style: disc url(images/menu-expanded.gif);
}

ul li.collapsed, ul.menu li.collapsed, .item-list ul li.collapsed {
  list-style: square url(images/menu-collapsed.gif);
}

ul.menu li ul li {
  font-size: 95%;
}

ul.menu li ul li ul li {
  line-height: 1.6em;
}

with this (pulled from the Garland theme):

ul li, ul.menu li, .item-list ul li, li.leaf {
  margin: 0.15em 0 0.15em .5em;
}

ul li, ul.menu li, .item-list ul li, li.leaf {
  padding: 0 0 .2em 1.5em;
  list-style-type: none;
  list-style-image: none;
  background: transparent url(images/menu-leaf.gif) no-repeat 1px .35em;
}

ul li.expanded {
  background: transparent url(images/menu-expanded.gif) no-repeat 1px .35em;
}

ul li.collapsed {
  background: transparent url(images/menu-collapsed.gif) no-repeat 0px .35em;
}

ul li.leaf a, ul li.expanded a, ul li.collapsed a {
  display: block;
}

This code should be included in the next update for the theme.

Thanks.

Hi, Tobias.

Thanks for letting me know the next step. Unfortunately, I read through much of the patch documentation and it is more cryptic than Greek to me. I think I'll need to do much reading on CVS in general before I create a patch.

Julianna

Okay, I think I finally figured out this patch thing.

I'm leaving the status at "code needs work". Although the patch fixes the spacing issue, it moves the Primary Links boxes down a bit. This isn't an issue for me because I don't use the Primary Links but, obviously, this won't work for everyone.

Because I'm a newb and don't know what I'm doing?