<br> v.s. <br clear> (was Re: [Pmwiki-users] text dropout in IE)

[Christian Ridderström]

On Sun, 4 Jan 2004, Patrick R. Michaud wrote:

> The way it works now is the way I think it should work.  Perhaps I should've
> said that "a sequence of blank lines in the wiki markup become a blank line
> in the XHTML output".

Perfect (maybe that phrase should be added to some PmWiki/-page?, 
together with a similar note about multiple spaces)

> > > Another idea might be to eliminate <p> tag altogether, converting sequences
> > > of blank lines into a <br /><br /> sequence.
> > 
> > Wouldn't using <br> affect placement of figures/tables as well?
> 
> Umm, I don't think so.  It'd only affect those if it was <br clear='all'>,
> a normal <br> tag ought to work.

Oops... my head thought you meant [[<<]] which outputs <br clear='all'>...

/Christian

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