- From: Matthew Brealey <webmaster@richinstyle.com>
- Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 13:46:07 -0700
- To: www-html@w3.org, www-style@w3.org
- Message-ID: <38F38F0F.1197@richinstyle.com>
> >More than one empty paragraph (if no one assigns borders or padding > >on <p> elements) looks like one empty paragraph. But one > >empty paragraph still doesn't look like zero empty paragraphs. > > ><div>foo</div><p></p><div>bar</div> > > >The <p> is not "ignored" here; Rather artificial that. People always use <BR> for this purpose, and you can't claim that *they* should be ignored. In any case, if you are using <p> for this purpose you clearly don't want them to be ignored and so therefore you don't need to use :empty to make them ignored. > >it introduces a gap of about 1em, depending on your browser's > >setting for margins on <p>. > > It does _not_ in Mozilla M14 "strict" mode. > (yes, I did try exactly your line up here before posting :) That's a bug - it doesn't ignore the Ps here: http://richinstyle.com/test/application/sibling2.html so by any interpretation of the spec this is wrong. ------------------------------------------------------------------ Please visit RichInStyle com. If it's style-related, it's here. And now: MySite v2 - offer your users a choice between predefined styles or they can create their own, with control over font sizes, colors, background colors, background images, borders, margins, line heights, add a custom style rule, font faces, link underlining, etc. Download now FREE: http://richinstyle.com/free/mysite.html. And now: Working properly in Netscape (untested 11th hour changes).
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