Del Wegener wrote:
Jukka K. Korpela wrote:
On Mon, 21 May 2007, david wrote:
that each line is
easily handled as a separate paragraph, with CSS controlling line
spacing and left/right margins.
Just to add my two cents worth. When writing mathematics one frequently
must display a
Jukka K. Korpela wrote:
On Mon, 21 May 2007, david wrote:
that each line is
easily handled as a separate paragraph, with CSS controlling line
spacing and left/right margins.
Just to add my two cents worth. When writing mathematics one frequently
must display a formula which in fact is
Richard Grevers wrote:
On 5/21/07, Bob Easton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Francesco Rizzi wrote:
So, my question for the list is:
why should we use css rules in this scenario instead of br tags ?
Let's call it separating content (HTML) from presentation (CSS). Use
technologies for their
Different solution:
hrpContent/p and style the p element accordingly to achieve the
spacing with different margins/paddings for top and bottom. You save
code and the whole thing becomes more clear to read aswell.
Inside the p element feel free to use br. br is a line break,
nothing else. Its not
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
david wrote:
Richard Grevers wrote:
On 5/21/07, Bob Easton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Francesco Rizzi wrote:
So, my question for the list is:
why should we use css rules in this scenario instead of br tags ?
Let's call it separating content (HTML) from presentation (CSS). Use
technologies
Jukka K. Korpela wrote:
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
On May 22, 2007, at 3:32 PM, david wrote:
I would be interested in seeing your pure css solution for
inserting a
carriage return in the middle of a paragraph (or similar block
element
which is semantically a single unit, but nevertheless needs a
newline)
without adding other
Philippe Wittenbergh wrote:
On May 22, 2007, at 3:32 PM, david wrote:
I would be interested in seeing your pure css solution for inserting a
carriage return in the middle of a paragraph (or similar block element
which is semantically a single unit, but nevertheless needs a newline)
without
On Mon, 21 May 2007, david wrote:
Why would you need to do all that? You just put your inline quotation or
program code in its own paragraph and adjust your margins that way. Why
would you need to use :before or :after pseudo-elements at all?
If I have, say, a text paragraph that mentions a
On Mon, 21 May 2007, david wrote:
Update: after posting that, I saw someone else mention song lyrics or
poetry. Being a writer of both, all I can say is - that each line is
easily handled as a separate paragraph, with CSS controlling line
spacing and left/right margins.
I don't think it's
david wrote:
Update: after posting that, I saw someone else mention song lyrics or
poetry. Being a writer of both, all I can say is - that each line is
easily handled as a separate paragraph, with CSS controlling line
spacing and left/right margins.
But each line is *not* a paragraph. Each
On Tue, 22 May 2007, Blake Haswell wrote:
I think there are only two really appropriate ways to mark-up poetry.
Using pre tags, or using paragraphs to mark-up the stanza's and the
br tag to show line-breaks. Possibly using an OL to mark it up as an
ordered list, but that's only an option if
On Tue, 22 May 2007, Blake Haswell wrote:
I think there are only two really appropriate ways to mark-up poetry.
Using pre tags, or using paragraphs to mark-up the stanza's and the
br tag to show line-breaks. Possibly using an OL to mark it up as an
ordered list, but that's only an option if
On 5/22/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, 22 May 2007, Blake Haswell wrote:
Of course, in XHTML 2.0, they will be doing away with the br / tag.
Don't count this as a victory. They're replacing it with the lineThe
quick brown .../line syntax. So, clearly, the W3C
Jukka K. Korpela wrote:
On Mon, 21 May 2007, david wrote:
Why would you need to do all that? You just put your inline quotation or
program code in its own paragraph and adjust your margins that way. Why
would you need to use :before or :after pseudo-elements at all?
If I have, say, a text
Jukka K. Korpela wrote:
On Mon, 21 May 2007, david wrote:
Update: after posting that, I saw someone else mention song lyrics or
poetry. Being a writer of both, all I can say is - that each line is
easily handled as a separate paragraph, with CSS controlling line
spacing and left/right
Blake Haswell wrote:
david wrote:
Update: after posting that, I saw someone else mention song lyrics or
poetry. Being a writer of both, all I can say is - that each line is
easily handled as a separate paragraph, with CSS controlling line
spacing and left/right margins.
But each line is
Francesco Rizzi wrote:
So, my question for the list is:
why should we use css rules in this scenario instead of br tags ?
Let's call it separating content (HTML) from presentation (CSS). Use
technologies for their intended, and standards compliant, purposes. Use
1) Use HTML for well
On 5/21/07, Bob Easton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Francesco Rizzi wrote:
So, my question for the list is:
why should we use css rules in this scenario instead of br tags ?
Let's call it separating content (HTML) from presentation (CSS). Use
technologies for their intended, and standards
br and br / have
no semantic value. Those are presentational markup that should never
have been in HTML.
I disagree. In terms of song lyrics, poetry, and sometimes even
mailing addresses I generally think that br is a perfectly
acceptable solution that *does* have semantic value and fulfils
Consider an hypothetical situation:
the project requirements call for some vertical space between a certain
element on your web page (picture an horizontal line, like an hr), and a
second element (picture a textbox).
There's many ways you can achieve this effect. My instinct would be to give
the
On 5/19/07, Francesco Rizzi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Consider an hypothetical situation:
the project requirements call for some vertical space between a certain
element on your web page (picture an horizontal line, like an hr), and a
second element (picture a textbox).
There's many ways you
If you don't want to use CSS,why not add several br / to get the space you
require.?
From: Francesco Rizzi [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: css-d@lists.css-discuss.org
Subject: [css-d] Vertical Space Grudge Match: br vs css
Date: Sat, 19 May 2007 22:05:33 -0400
Consider an hypothetical situation
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