Thank you Christian and Kenny,
Just one clarification,
Kenny Wrote In these cases
(especially poems), the line break is important to the content itself,
not just how you would like it to be displayed.
so everything can be argued to be correct semantical use of the br-tag, if
we claim it to
At 01:26 PM 1/13/2006, denAnden.dk wrote:
in the sence that in address example, the meaning a Br-tag would
carrie could instead be carried by commas or seperate p tags, which
would be more correct and should be used?
This is one of those points we'll never all agree on but love to
argue.
Hi,
Paul Wrote.
p class=exhortation
span class=adverbJust/span
span class=verbget/span
span class=prepositionover/span
span class=pronounit/span
span class=conjunctionand/span
span class=verbbreak/span
span class=articlethe/span
So many people think that br should be avoided, but only for text
layout or for the entire document?
Because I've been so tempted to use tables when formatting a form, and
now I read that br tags should not be used... And I think that
creating a unique CSS class with the absolute position for each
Alvaro Mouriño wrote:
So many people think that br should be avoided, but only for text
layout or for the entire document?
It's important not to get confused, nor put weight into such statements,
they're usually either stated too broadly just plain wrong. br can be
used for explicit line
I want to ask something that's on the same line as the original poster,
but a little bit in another direction.
Sorry!
But, for example, marking up a postal address, a poem or something
where line breaks are semantically important, then the use of br is ok.
p
123 George Street,br
The much maligned br element is essential in our work. Sometimes we're not
just doing poetry and addresses.
Take for example the archive page of this very message (the one I'm replying
to).
http://webstandardsgroup.org/manage/archive.cfm?uid=C69ACE78-BB9A-910B-E6CC1A4A59BDF099
How else would I
Nope. Only, I'd add that there are existing apps out there that will
fall into various server-side languages to do intelligent replacement
of linebreaks - paragraphs, smart quotes, etc. KSES, used by
WordPress (or at least it used to be) is one such for the PHP langauge
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