Hi Russ, it's XHTML nowadays :) In xhtml every tag needs a closing tag. But I think it's even correct even if you look much further in the past. <p> identifies a section, therefor a section should have a start and an end </p>. On the way people realized that <p> makes a nice break in most rendering engines and startet to use it as some kind of "superior <br>" and while browsers were very very forgiving they didn't complain about the missing </p>s...
If you like to learn it all have a lood at www.w3c.org/MarkUp/ and read a lot :) In fact there's many articles about xhtml out there in the net and every better computer magazine I know had an article about xhtml now or then. Hope it helps! /Carsten > -----Urspr�ngliche Nachricht----- > Von: Russ Hunt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Gesendet: Mittwoch, 14. Januar 2004 16:13 > An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Betreff: Re: Configuring Mozilla to use <p></p> per default instead of > <br> > > > Could someone tell me where to look to find out why </p> is used > at all? I've never been able to see any difference whatsoever > in the appearance of a file when I delete all the </p>s. > > (I was encouraged to ask by Carsten Germer's posting about %7E > for ~, which has never made the slightest sense to me -- but > which I now sort of understand . . . I still hate it, as excess > & useless code, as I do </p>, but I see I'm probably going to > have to get used to it.) > > -- Russ > > > Is there a configuration to tell the composer in Mozilla to > > use <p></p> instead of <br> per default, when the user hits > > the return key? > St. Thomas University > http://www.StThomasU.ca/~hunt/ > > > > _______________________________________________ mozilla-editor mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/mozilla-editor
