TD IMG { Vertical-Align: Bottom; }As far as the BR, it was there and I no longer use it. However, this was not the cause of the gap. This is a W3C standard and since modern browsers all follows up, when using DOCTYPE, this is a normal behavior. So, wherever I need to space something, I call a method in the framework. This method encapsulates the spacing inside a DIV with Font-Size: 0px. So, this works in HTML5 as well as in quirk mode.