On Mon, 21 May 2007, david wrote: > Why would you need to start a new line in the middle of a paragraph? I > think that if you think about it, you'll find you're doing it to put a > different item inside it, like a list?
A fairly common case is a longish expression, such as an inline quotation or a piece program code, which appears as part of the paragraph text. You might wish to present it on a line of its own, possibly with indentation. Using <br> is the practical way. If you want indentation, you can wrap the content between the <br> tags inside a <span> and assign e.g. left padding to it. Using just <span> and CSS isn't practical, since you would need to use :before and :after pseudo-elements and generated content, which aren't supported at all e.g. in IE. > The <br> tag is very old HTML. I think it existed for those people who > were well used to traditions in printed material and didn't want a blank > line between their paragraphs! Before CSS arrived, you couldn't do > anything about the extra space between paragraphs, IIRC. I don't think that was the reason for including <br> into HTML, but it surely became common usage, which still prevails. And surely CSS offers much more natural and flexible methods for making paragraphs appear in "literary style". -- Jukka "Yucca" Korpela, http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/ ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7 information -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=IE7 List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
