How do I remove this strange padding?

Well for Safari in general:

@media screen and (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio:0) {
  li { padding: 0; }
}

For Safari 3.0+, this is css3 compatible, so will be also affect other browsers:

body:first-of-type li {
  padding: 0;
}

And for Safari 3.1, which also affects Chrome:

body:nth-of-type(1) li {
  padding: 0;
}

Up to you what you use, and bear in mind that is css for -all- li items.

You shouldn’t need to use any of the above to fix this issue. will make the css very messy. Padding is already zero.

Try adding margin:0 to .sidebar ul li.

Another suggestion might be to use a reset stylesheet which will set all browsers the the same. Here is an example of one – https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2007/05/01/reset-reloaded/

If this doesn’t work are you able to post a link? Does this problem occur in firefox as well?

Dave.

Thanks a lot guys. I’m gonna fiddle around some more. You’ll hear from me in a bit.

Well, I’ve tried both of your suggestions. And neither seems to work. Firefox has the same problem by the way.

I would give you an URL to the site, but I’m running it locally for designing purposes. However, here’s my complete CSS code:

@charset "UTF-8";
/* CSS Document
Theme Name: JB_portfolio
Description: This theme is made by Jeroen Berkenbosch for his photography portfolio.
Version: 1.0
Author: Jeroen Berkenbosch
Author URL: https://www.berkenbosch.net
*/

body, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, blockquote, p{
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}

body {
	background-color: #424242;
	font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, Sans-Serif;
	font-size: 1em;
	line-height: 1.5;
	color: #FFFFFF;
	background-position: top;
	margin-bottom: -4px;
	padding-top: 0px;
	padding-right: 0px;
	padding-bottom: 20px;
	padding-left: 0px;
	text-align: center;
}

a:link, a:visited{
text-decoration: none;
color: white;
font-weight: bold;
}

a:hover{
text-decoration: none;
color: #db1741;
font-weight: bold;
}

p{
padding: 10px 0 0 0;
}

h1{
font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, Sans-Serif;
font-size: 3em;
padding: 0 0 10px 0;
}

/*DIVS*/

#wrapper{
margin: 0 auto 0 auto;
width: 950px;
text-align: left;
}

/*header*/
#header{
float: left;
width: 950px;
padding-left: 10px;
font-size: 12px;
text-transform: uppercase;
	background-image: url(./header.png);
	background-repeat: no-repeat;
	height: 70px;
}

/*container*/
#container {
	width: 770px;
	margin-top: 0px;
	margin-right: auto;
	margin-bottom: 0;
	margin-left: auto;
	float: right;
}

/*post*/
.post{
padding: 10px 0 10px 0;
}

.post h2{
font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, Sans-Serif;
font-size: 2em;
}

.entry{
line-height: 18px;
}

p.postmetadata{
border-top: 1px solid #ccc;
margin: 10px 0 0 0;
}

.navigation{
padding: 10px 0 0 0;
font-size: 14px;
font-weight: bold;
line-height: 18px;
}

/*sidebar*/

.sidebar {
	width: 160px;
	float: left;
	line-height: 1.5;
	text-align: left;
	padding-right: 0px;
	padding-bottom: 25px;
	padding-left: 0px;
	margin-top: 0px;
	padding-top: 19px;
	margin: 0;
	display: inline; /*IE-spul*/
}

.sidebar ul{
	list-style-type: none;
	margin: 0px;
	padding: 0 10px 0 10px;
	font-size: 24px;
	text-transform: uppercase;
}

.sidebar ul li{
	padding: 0;
	text-transform: uppercase;
}

.sidebar ul li ul li a{
	font-size: 17px;
	padding: 0;
}

/*footer*/
#footer{
	height: 1em; /* ie doubles padding-top if he doesn't have "haslayout" */
	clear: both;
	float: left;
	width: 950px;
	padding-top: 0px;
	font-size: 12px;
	text-align: right;

}

#footer p{
	line-height: 18px;
}

Maybe something is interfering with the settings?

Oh and yes, I still have to cleanup my code ?? Looks messy without the tabs.

Wait, so now firefox has the issue? You said Safari had the problem.

I agree with Dave.

Add this:

* { margin: 0; padding: 0; }

That’ll reset all margins and padding to 0 from the outset.

Safari AND Firefox have the same problem.

I’ve added the code you just supplied, jbbrwcky, but it doesn’t seem to do anything.

However, I did edit the individual line-height, and it’s a lot less noticeable, which obviously is a good thing.

When I make a screenshot and use a blending mode in photoshop to align them on top of each other, the first links are perfectly aligned, but the childs aren’t.

Again: Opera shows them closer together than Safari and Firefox (which show the same height).

So I’m guessing it’s more of a CSS-interpretation related thing than anything else.

I also have this strange issue. All margin and padding a set to 0 across the board but Safari 4.0.2 list items on a page post have alot more padding than required. Firefox, Opera are both working in the order i required.

I have used firebug and safari developer tools and cant find anything.

I have just noticed that there is an additional <p> tag in safari.

Any ideas why?

Just discovered a similar issue this evening while designing an inline list menu. Spent an hour trying to work out why Chrome and Safari were adding a mystery left padding to the list.

@charset "UTF-8";

Drop the declaration and the mystery padding disappears!

I know it is a late reply, but I thought it would be appreciated by those Googling.