newbie: space between text lines.

Greetings,

I am completly new to Macromedia Dreamweaver and somewhat new to HTML. I'm
having a problem with the lines of text in dreamweaver. Whenever i type
something then press return. Theres a big space where i accually want the text
to be. I've looked around the product and i cant see any way to fix it. Any
help is greatly appreciated.

Gordon

when you type "return" you insert a <p> tag in your code. A <p> tag is a
paragraph tag (equivalent to two line breaks). To insert a line break
tag (a <br>), you need to press SHIFT and Return at the same time.

gordonspeirs wrote:

Greetings,

I am completly new to Macromedia Dreamweaver and somewhat new to HTML. I'm
having a problem with the lines of text in dreamweaver. Whenever i type
something then press return. Theres a big space where i accually want the text
to be. I've looked around the product and i cant see any way to fix it. Any
help is greatly appreciated.

Gordon

Bad solution, however. (we'll get you thinking right, seb - it's just a
matter of time! 8)

A line break will ALWAYS break the line at that point, no matter how the
text is flowed within its container. This can lead to unexpected appearance
issues.

A MUCH better solution is to use CSS to modify the inherent margins on the
<p> tag, e.g.,

p.special { margin:2px; }
(adjust that value to suit)

<p class="special">This text will continue to flow to fill the width of the
line regardless of the container's width</p>

Then you retain the benefit of having freely flowing text content, AND in
having the line spacing you desire.

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"gordonspeirs" <webforumsuser (AT) macromedia (DOT) com> wrote

Thanks man!