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Hi, sorry for the random comment here, but I stumbled upon this entry during a google search for this issue, so I hope you don't mind me adding some important information?

Well, the gap is a placeholder for messages to the journal owner, presumably the "please switch to our new friends feed" one, because the gap has been there, ever since this message was displayed months ago. LJ has removed the message, but never the gap for it!

And that's the reason your provided solution comes with a catch: It'll move the content of the friends page upwards, no matter who is watching the friends page, but the gap is only visible to the logged-in owner of the journal. Therefore the control_strip will now overlap with the content or headerimage by the number of pixels specified in your code for everyone viewing your friends page who isn't logged-in as the owner of the journal! It's probably no big issue assuming that very few people actually click other users' f-pages anyway, but I wanted to mention the issue, so people applying your code are aware of this side effect.

Ultimately I've tweaked the source code itself instead to remove the gap only if the viewer is the owner of the journal, but since that solution requires a theme layer it'll only work for a paid account. Therefore your code is still the best solution for anyone who can only tweak the custom CSS.

That being said, I really want to thank you for all the neat tutorials you've compiled here! I'll surely take a look around here in the near future!