Re: BR element and generated content

Alex Mogilevsky wrote:
> CSS2.1 default stylesheet defines <BR> element as

That stylesheet is non-normative and has a number of issues in it.  I wouldn't 
use it for more than a general guideline to how HTML should look by default, 
basically...

> If taken literally, this means

In a UA that doesn't treat <br> as a replaced element, this rule would have the 
effect of putting in a newline (well, if white-space is also set).  In a UA that 
treats <br> as a replaced element (most of them), the effect of this rule is 
undefined, last I checked.

-Boris

Received on Tuesday, 9 October 2007 02:15:27 UTC