Odd spacing in creating table tags

[-N-]

Yeah, so I was making a table in my sig, and in Preview Sig it keeps putting in a nasty gap between some text and the start of the table. Like, well, check it out.

edit: Line of code of interest.
The Gang are:
< table >< tr >< td >< b >The Member< /b >< td >< b >Running for Ciddies< /b >< /tr >

edit again: I changed it so the whole sig is a text table, i.e.
< table >< tr >< td >The Gang are:< /tr >
< tr >< td >< b >The Member< /b >< td >< b >Running for Ciddies< /b >< /tr >

Still spaced out, as you can see. Why?

edit x3: I took it out of my sig to see if it works in a general post.
<table><tr><td>The Gang are:</tr>
<tr><td><b>The Member</b><td><b>Running for Ciddies</b></tr>
<tr><td>The Leader<td>Too Cool for the Ciddies</tr>
<tr><td>The Weird One<td>Too Weird for the Ciddies</tr>
<tr><td>The Chick<td>Best Female</tr>
<tr><td>The Token Minority<td>Best Spammer</tr>
<tr><td>The Nerd<td>MLT Get Hit By a Bus</tr>
<tr><td>The Hippie<td>MLT Be Driving The Bus</tr>
<tr><td>The Prankster<td>MLT Kill Someone Who Stole His Ciddie</tr>
<tr><td>The Gang discreetly supports:</tr>
<tr><td>Agent Proto<td>MLT Be a Modwhore</tr>
<tr><td>Meat Puppet<td>Funniest Member</tr>
</table>
Didn't work. ;_;

[crono_logical]

Try putting everything on one line, vB is lame with tables and likes to spread them out with extra line breaks like that

[-N-]

WTF how the hell. In any case, thanks clout.
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[Endless]

Try putting everything on one line, vB is lame with tables and likes to spread them out with extra line breaks like that

In fact, it takes all the manual cr-lf (not made by the &lt;br> tag and puts them all above the table.