Rick Gordon wrote:
> I maintain a Blogger site for a non technical user. Since (unless you 
> explicitly tag it otherwise) a pblog post consits of a single paragraph, and 
> uses <br/> tags (mapped to the user's carraige returns). 
> 
> I would like to set up a means of increasing space under these breaks, but 
> not multiplying the increase if 2 or more breaks are inserted in succession.
> 
> So I made a br style:
> 
> .post-body br {
> display:inline-block;
> margin-bottom: .75em;
> }
> 
> This handles single breaks fine, but the space gets too big if multiple 
> breaks are used.
> 
> So I tried both of the following:
> 
> .post-body br - br {
> display:inline;
> margin-bottom: 0;
> }


There is no such combinator as '-'.


> .post-body br + br {
> display:inline;
> margin-bottom: 0;
> }
> 
> ... but what happens in either case is that breaks after the first one are 
> affected, even if they are not in immediate succession. Any suggestions as to 
> how I might achieve my aim here? There's no way the user is going to deal 
> with HTML for this, so CSS is the only hope.
> 


How about this.

.post-body br:first-child {
display:inline-block;
margin-bottom: .75em;
}


This will only target the first <br> in the element .post-body.


-- 
Alan http://css-class.com/

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