On Tue, Jun 01, 1999 at 10:45:44AM +0100, Lee Willis wrote: > Well it's entitled to, as far as HTML 3.2 is concerned </p> tags are not > necessary and shouldn't be used to force breaks
Well, no, but it's valid HTML and if it works then what the hey. > This paragraph > <p> > <hr> > <p>Next paragraph > Which you should be using to force the space. No. One of the very first style guides I read (probably back at HTML 1) said explicitly "don't write <p><hr>". You can't guarantee that any particular browser will add a blank line. The <hr> tag implies the end of the paragraph - how can a horizontal line be part of a paragraph? So what you've written there is a paragraph with no text in it - I don't know whether that's valid HTML but if it is then the browser is completely at liberty to ignore the empty paragraph. imc
