RE: How to prevent tidy from inserting new line after <br>?

I guess a bug crept in somewhere. Originally, Tidy replaced <br> or
<br /> by a single line break when the br appeared within a <pre>
element. I think <p> was replaced by a pair of line breaks. I can't
remember how I handled </p>.

On Tue, 14 Jan 2003, Charles Reitzel wrote:

> 
> No worries.  Btw, Tidy still has problems w/tabs in PRE elements.
> 
> take it easy,
> Charlie
> 
> At 03:13 PM 1/14/2003 +0100, Peter Macej wrote:
> 
> >Please ignore my previous email. I just downloaded new version of Tidy and
> >it works fine. I haven't realize that I use older version, I fool.
> >Sorry
> >
> >Peter
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Peter Macej [mailto:Peter.Macej@tuke.sk]
> > > Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2003 3:00 PM
> > > To: html-tidy@w3.org
> > > Subject: How to prevent tidy from inserting new line after <br>?
> > >
> > >
> > > Tidy always adds new line after <br> tag, even in <pre> tag. This
> > > affects result. I played with every possible tidy config, but I
> > > cannot turn off this behaviour. It's only OK when markup=no but
> > > then < > & etc. are not replaced by escape sequences.
> > >
> > > Example:
> > >
> > > <HTML>
> > > <BODY>
> > > <pre>
> > >   line1<br>  line2
> > > <pre>
> > > </BODY>
> > > </HTML>
> > >
> > > After processing with tidy:
> > > <HTML>
> > > <BODY>
> > > <pre>
> > >   line1<br>
> > >   line2
> > > <pre>
> > > </BODY>
> > > </HTML>
> > >
> > > The output is not the same, one line break is added in browser
> > > because new lines in source are not ignored. I cannot stop using
> > > <br> because that text is automatically generated from other program.
> > >
> > > Is there a way how to escape < > & and let <pre> untouched?
> > >
> > > Thank you
> > >
> > > Peter Macej
> 

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Received on Tuesday, 14 January 2003 11:38:24 UTC