HTML Paragraph question

[MW de Jager]

Hi all

I'm not an HTML programmer so please excuse my ignorance.

I am trying to force text to display on the next line, but I do not want an
emply line between lines of text.

Option1
Option2
Option3 etc. with no blank lines inbetween.

What am I doing wrong if it displays as below

Option1

Option2

Option3

Thanking you all in advance

Regards
MW de Jager

 

[John Timney \(ASP.NET MVP\)]

try using </br> instead of </p>

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Regards

John Timney
ASP.NET MVP
Microsoft Regional Director

Hi all

I'm not an HTML programmer so please excuse my ignorance.

I am trying to force text to display on the next line, but I do not want an
emply line between lines of text.

Option1
Option2
Option3 etc. with no blank lines inbetween.

What am I doing wrong if it displays as below

Option1

Option2

Option3

Thanking you all in advance

Regards
MW de Jager

 

[Tom.PesterDELETETHISSS]

Hi de Jager,

Browsers display the <p> tag with some space between if you dont tell them
otherwise. You can influence the appearance through a cascading style sheet
(CSS).
Im afraid it takes some time to master css but its the only way to do it
if you want to keep the <p> tag. Check out the CSS margin properties.

( The easy solution is to just put a line break after each option Option1&nbsp;Option2.
"&nbsp;" is the weird looking consturct that gives you a line break )

Let me know if you have any more questions..

Cheers,
Tom Pester

 

[Hans Kesting]

Hi de Jager,

( The easy solution is to just put a line break after each option
Option1&nbsp;Option2. "&nbsp;" is the weird looking consturct that
gives you a line break )

&nbsp; does NOT give a linebreak, instead it prevents an automatic linebreak!

nbsp stands for Non Breaking SPace: the user sees a space, but the browser doesn't,
so will never try to put a linebreak there.

Hans Kesting

 

[MW de Jager]

Thank you, I'll try the &nbsp first.

Regards
MW

Hi de Jager,

Browsers display the <p> tag with some space between if you dont tell them
otherwise. You can influence the appearance through a cascading style
sheet (CSS).
Im afraid it takes some time to master css but its the only way to do it
if you want to keep the <p> tag. Check out the CSS margin properties.

( The easy solution is to just put a line break after each option
Option1&nbsp;Option2. "&nbsp;" is the weird looking consturct that gives
you a line break )

Let me know if you have any more questions..

Cheers,
Tom Pester

 

[MW de Jager]

&nbsp; just gives me a space, not a line break

MW

 

[MW de Jager]

The </br> works fine. Is this still well formed html though

<P>Option1</br>
Option2</br>
Option3</br></P>

Kind regards
MW

try using </br> instead of </p>

--
Regards

John Timney
ASP.NET MVP
Microsoft Regional Director

Hi all

I'm not an HTML programmer so please excuse my ignorance.

I am trying to force text to display on the next line, but I do not want an
emply line between lines of text.

Option1
Option2
Option3 etc. with no blank lines inbetween.

What am I doing wrong if it displays as below

Option1

Option2

Option3

Thanking you all in advance

Regards
MW de Jager

 

[Tom.PesterDELETETHISSS]

Forget my previous comment on &nbsp; It achieves the opposite of what you
want.

The code you posted is well formed. I think if you begin with HTML its ok
if what you see in the browser is what you want.

But someone who writes a lot of html would say that you loose the information
that option1 is a paragraph on its own (if that is what you want).
If you want to advance you will have too look at CSS some time.

Cheers,
Tom Pester

 

[Hans Kesting]

It's just <br>, you don't want (need) the "/" in there.
If you want it in xhtml, then use <br />.

Hans Kesting

The </br> works fine. Is this still well formed html though

<P>Option1</br>
Option2</br>
Option3</br></P>

Kind regards
MW

try using </br> instead of </p>

--
Regards

John Timney
ASP.NET MVP
Microsoft Regional Director

Hi all

I'm not an HTML programmer so please excuse my ignorance.

I am trying to force text to display on the next line, but I do not want an
emply line between lines of text.

Option1
Option2
Option3 etc. with no blank lines inbetween.

What am I doing wrong if it displays as below

Option1

Option2

Option3

Thanking you all in advance

Regards
MW de Jager

 

[John Timney \(ASP.NET MVP\)]

thats what I meant ..........lol

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Regards

John Timney
ASP.NET MVP
Microsoft Regional Director

It's just <br>, you don't want (need) the "/" in there.
If you want it in xhtml, then use <br />.

Hans Kesting

The </br> works fine. Is this still well formed html though

<P>Option1</br>
Option2</br>
Option3</br></P>

Kind regards
MW

try using </br> instead of </p>

--
Regards

John Timney
ASP.NET MVP
Microsoft Regional Director

Hi all

I'm not an HTML programmer so please excuse my ignorance.

I am trying to force text to display on the next line, but I do not want an
emply line between lines of text.

Option1
Option2
Option3 etc. with no blank lines inbetween.

What am I doing wrong if it displays as below

Option1

Option2

Option3

Thanking you all in advance

Regards
MW de Jager