Hi, Andrew makes sense :)
What you can do is.. use <pre></pre> tags for the poem lines you just type the lines how should it look inside the pre tags. So you can include PRE tags for every stanzas and maintain the gap between them with CSS padding. Thanks, Jayachandran On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 2:59 PM, Andrew <and...@andrewmaben.com> wrote: > I'm sorry but that is ridiculous. > > We are talking about a poem and I assure you that the lines have a very > definite semantic significance. Therefore the separation of the text into > lines *must* be retained even in the absence of CSS. Any solution other than > the <br> tag is needlessly complicated. Though perhaps <pre> might be > acceptable in the case of concrete poetry. But some thing like this > http://blog.richmond.edu/openwidelookinside/files/2008/12/shape-poem-01.gifcan > only be presented as an image. > > Andrew > > Sent from my iPod > > On Jan 5, 2010, at 1:40 AM, Jayachandran Kandasamy < > jayachandran.kandas...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Use padding / margin thru CSS instead of BRs... > > Thank u > > On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 7:50 PM, Chris F.A. Johnson > <ch...@cfajohnson.com>wrote: > >> On Mon, 4 Jan 2010, Jayachandran Kandasamy wrote: >> >> > Hi Dwaal, >> > >> > Please dont practice to use BR tags for line breaks.. >> >> Why not? That's what they're for. >> >> > it is not standard web development >> >> The W3C says otherwise. >> >> > and lot of compatibility issues will occur across browsers and >> > internet devices :) :) >> >> ??? Can you be more specific? >> >> Of course one shouldn't use them in continuous blocks of text (the >> browser will take care of it), but where a line break is needed >> they are fine. >> >> >> > On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 2:12 AM, Frances de Waal <dw...@mac.com> wrote: >> > >> > > Hi there, >> > > >> > > May I ask your opinion about some semantic/HTML basics? >> > > >> > > In case of a poem, if I place every verse in a paragraph, what do I do >> with >> > > each line of text in the verse? Is this one of the very few occasions >> to use >> > > breaks? A verse doesn't seem a list to me... or is it? I like your >> opinion. >> > > >> > > In the very few tutorials I have seen about how to markup a form >> > > semantically, both were using a list in the form. To me that seems >> totally >> > > unneccessary plus too much markup. Does anyone know what can be the >> reason >> > > of doing it that way? >> > > >> > > InContextEditing, the online CMS from Adobe, needs a extra div for >> every >> > > editable region. This makes me avoiding the tool. Some keep saying >> that >> > > extra divs don't make any difference to a page at all. I agree they >> have no >> > > meaning semantically, but they do create extra code which is not >> neccessary >> > > for the content. But then again, we don't talk about 100 divs here. >> So, >> > > besides of best practice, is there any place where the extra divs may >> have >> > > bad influence? >> > > >> > > Frances de Waal >> > > www.waalweb.nl >> > > >> > > ******************************************************************* >> > > List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm >> > > Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm >> > > Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org >> > > ******************************************************************* >> > > >> > >> > >> > ******************************************************************* >> > List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm >> > Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm >> > Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org >> > ******************************************************************* >> >> -- >> Chris F.A. 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