How do remove space at top of web part zone?

Question

In my SharePoint Foundation site, I have a page with Text Layout set to "One column with sidebar". The left-hand column has a list web part, as does the right-hand column. However, the web part in the right-hand column is aligned to the top of the column, and the left-hand column has a space above the web part. I edit the HTML Source, and there is nothing above the div tag. How do I get rid of the space?

UPDATE: I found a solution when I upgraded to SharePoint 2013. It is listed below.

Answer 1

Once I upgraded to SharePoint 2013, I saw the same issue occuring with a SINGLE Web Part Zone. My solution should probably work with SharePont 2010 as well. To reproduce the problem in SharePoint 2013:

• Create a page.
• Add a list to the page.
• Edit the web part and change the view.
• The list is displayed, but there is a small amount of space above the list.

To correct the problem:

• Click the "Format Text" tab.
• Click "Edit Source" from the ribbon.
• Select all HTML and copy to the clipboard. NOTE: There is a line return before the first tag. Even if you remove it, it won't remove the space.
• Open SharePoint Designer (I haven't tried this with other editors, but it works within SharePoint Designer).
• Open a scratch (blank) .html page in SharePoint Designer.
• Paste from the clipboard. Notice the space is gone.
• Highlight the contents and copy to clipboard.
• Select the browser again and highlight the Edit Source text.
• Paste back on top of the highlighted text and click OK.
• Your list is now at the top of the page.

Answer 2

Out of the box both columns allow the Webpart to go to the top. It's very easy to get a web part in the left wrapped in a <h1>, but if you make sure to edit the HTML source of both columns so that they start with the <div class="ms-rtestate-read ms-rte-wpbox" contenteditable="false"> then they should align unless you have something in your theme/masterpage that offsets them.

If you look at the two columns in IE developer tools then the content of the divs with class ms-rte-layoutszone-inner should start the same way.

Answer 3

I had a similar issue a couple weeks ago and had to add some css to my page to fix it. It seems that different ms-rtestate classes are applied to different Web Parts and end up with slight differences in the layout.

I doubt that my specific fix will work in your case, but here it is as a reference:

ms-rtestate-field table {
    border-collapse: separate!important;
}

Answer 4

Easiest: Edit page, Click on the webpart, select the WEB PART tab, click "Minimize".