- From: E. Stephen Mack <estephen@emf.net>
- Date: Sat, 12 Jul 1997 22:57:33 -0700
- To: "David Perrell" <davidp@earthlink.net>, <www-html@w3.org>, "Liam Quinn" <liam@htmlhelp.com>
Liam Quinn wrote: >> Empty P elements are similar to multiple BR elements in a lot of >> ways... David Perrell wrote: > Define lot. In a typical rendering, BR forces a line space, P has > vertical margins. [...many other differences deleted...] Liam wasn't arguing that P's were like BR's -- he argued that *empty* P elements are similar to *multiple* BR elements. I was going to disagree with him at first, but now I think he's sort of right--on a structural level, the semantic content of an empty P is equivalent to the semantic content of two or more BRs. <P></P> says "There is a paragraph here that contains nothing." <BR><BR> says "There are multiple line breaks here." The content of the P element is the same as what lies in between the two <BR> tags: Nothing. The second BR is not structurally ending anything except an empty line. Granted, there are many differences between the P element and the BR element. But while we're on the issue of collapsed spaces and empty paragraphs (a hot topic, apparently), multiple BRs deserve consideration as well--whether they end up endorsed or not. -- E. Stephen Mack <estephen@emf.net> http://www.emf.net/~estephen/
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