RE: display property

>> By default, everything is 'display: inline'.

> That's not true. Simply test a page including
> <p>A paragraph.</p>

compliant browsers render a <p> in an xml with no styles as inline element.
p {display:inline;} is usually specified in the browsers default stylesheet
for (x)html documents.
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claus.
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