Ian Collier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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.
Yes but the question is *why* it works, ie because the browser converts it to what I said > > <p> > > <hr> > > <p>Next paragraph The reason he was getting a break when he had the </p> was because his browser was in effect treating it as an <p>. The <hr> on its own doesn't give a break and so when he loses the </p> (And therefore the implied <p>) he gets no break because the <hr> is treated as part of the paragraph (Wrongly I agree, but that's what happens!) > > Which you should be using to force the space. Hmm, yeah OK s/\./ in most common browsers./ :) > The <hr> tag implies the end of the paragraph - how can a horizontal > line be part of a paragraph? Good point, I hadn't actually thought about it too much :( > So what you've written there is a paragraph with no text in it No, it's a paragraph containing a single space, which hence requires proper spacing as if it were a paragraph containing some "visible" text. <p><hr> *is* an empty paragraph and could be folded out > don't know whether that's valid HTML It is. > completely at liberty to ignore the empty paragraph. Well if it was an entirely empty paragraph then yes it is, but it isn't it contains a space (Well actually a new line, but that is in essence 'whitespace') and thus is not empty per se. Lee. -- I was doing object-oriented assembly at 1 year old ... For some reason my mom insists on calling it "Playing with blocks"
