- From: RCI <robert_ingham_uk@yahoo.co.uk>
- Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2000 09:34:54 +0100 (BST)
- To: Clover Andrew <aclover@1VALUE.com>
- Cc: "'www-html@w3.org'" <www-html@w3.org>
Although there might be other uses for empty <P>s, the best way to generate vertical white-space, if it _must_ be done, is to use multiple <BR>s. So if the parser ignores the empty <P>s, that's fine by me. --- Clover Andrew <aclover@1VALUE.com> wrote: > Surely there's also a valid use for empty <p> tags? > Namely, a paragraph > whose contents will be filled in later using DHTML > (appendChild or > similar)? > > Sure, you could get around the limitation by using a > <div> instead, or > putting useless content (eg. ) in the > paragraph, but I think the > idea of this rule was to *decrease* HTML's kludge > level, wasn't it? > > -- > Andrew Clover > Technical Support > 1VALUE.com AG > > ===== Computer Classics (one of a series) Keyboard Error: press F1 to continue ____________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.co.uk address at http://mail.yahoo.co.uk or your free @yahoo.ie address at http://mail.yahoo.ie
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