Curtis Clauson wrote:
>
> If you remove any margins and padding from above and below an <HR> element (and any
>from the
> surrounding elements), you are still left with a considerable amount of whitespace.
>It does
> state in the HTML specification that:
>
> "The amount of vertical space inserted between a rule and the content that
>surrounds
> it depends on the user agent."
>
> However, the existance of any whitespace beyond that added by margins or padding is
>a nasty
> layout problem to a page developer. Is there any actual reason that Mozilla is
>rendering the
> <HR> element with this extra whitespace (MSIE does it too, but that's certainly no
>excuse)?
>
> An example page which shows an <H1>, some <DIV>s, and some <HR>s without margins or
>paddings can
> be seen at:
> http://www.thesnakepitdev.com/mozilla/hr.html
I've repeatelt heard CSS experts comment that CSS can't handle HR
properly, but I have no more information than that comment to offer you.
Perhaps CSS3 will address this.
AndyT
