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Re: new type of <br>

From: Frank Boumphrey <bckman@ix.netcom.com>
Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2003 18:05:36 -0500
Message-ID: <03b901c2e1d9$684f5e60$0300a8c0@D1C4FN01>
To: "Patrick Creehan" <pcreehan@hotmail.com>, <www-html@w3.org> 
>What about a new element similar to <br> which only provides a line break if there is any content after it? In >other words, one that adds no whitespace.

IMO This would not be a good idea, because now you have a conditional element and not mark up.


Frank
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Patrick Creehan 
  To: www-html@w3.org 
  Sent: Monday, March 03, 2003 8:58 AM
  Subject: new type of <br>


  What about a new element similar to <br> which only provides a line break if there is any content after it? In other words, one that adds no whitespace.
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