jgenyuk
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Extra vertical space and </p> tags
Hi,
I have the page with the following HTML:
<table width="100%" border=0><tr><td valign=top><table width=31 border=0 align=left cellspacing=10><tr><td>
<p>
<img src="/someimage.gif">
</p>
</td></tr></table>
<p>
some text
</p>
<br clear=all>
</td></tr></table>
...some links
Page itself is at http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/earth/Atmosphere/overview.html
Netscape and Firefox add quite a bit of vertical space before links that come after tables. By trial and error I've found out that removing the last </p> tag solves the problem. But my boss wants valid HTML and is reluctant to remove closing </p> tags. Is it a known problem, and is there any other way to solve it? Thanks.
I have the page with the following HTML:
<table width="100%" border=0><tr><td valign=top><table width=31 border=0 align=left cellspacing=10><tr><td>
<p>
<img src="/someimage.gif">
</p>
</td></tr></table>
<p>
some text
</p>
<br clear=all>
</td></tr></table>
...some links
Page itself is at http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/earth/Atmosphere/overview.html
Netscape and Firefox add quite a bit of vertical space before links that come after tables. By trial and error I've found out that removing the last </p> tag solves the problem. But my boss wants valid HTML and is reluctant to remove closing </p> tags. Is it a known problem, and is there any other way to solve it? Thanks.
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Your best bet is to set up the pages as templates and have the writers just submit the text into forms that save the information either in an XML file or database and let the page render dynamically. Then you have complete control over the input without requiring your writers to educate themselves in page layout.
> Why on earth would you want to use the <p> tag for that anyway?
> There's better ways to format text into paragraphs.
Um, the p in <p> stands for paragraph. That's what the tag is for. What's wrong with using the tag as it's designed to be used?
> There's better ways to format text into paragraphs.
Um, the p in <p> stands for paragraph. That's what the tag is for. What's wrong with using the tag as it's designed to be used?
Well...there's not much wrong with it, but everybody knows it generates extra space..
arantius...
And form is for a form, which should not have any additional line breaks, nor should paragraphs. I believe that's the point DreamMaster is trying to make. They're block elements, not block elements with an additional line feed, or they shouldn't be.
And form is for a form, which should not have any additional line breaks, nor should paragraphs. I believe that's the point DreamMaster is trying to make. They're block elements, not block elements with an additional line feed, or they shouldn't be.
Thanks arantius...trying to explain that at 7 am is not advisable.. :P
Regards,
Max.
Regards,
Max.
ASKER
Also the bulk of these pages is written by writers, not programmers, and I'm reluctant to make them use stylesheets and other stuff beyond simple HTML tags. There is one common simple stylesheet that is used for all pages, will it help if I define a style for <p>? Or is there any other easy way to outsmart it?