Composer: very grateful <BR> survives

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johnbessa
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Composer: very grateful <BR> survives

Post by johnbessa »

I just want to say how grateful I am that the

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 <BR>
tag has not been replaced by the

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<P>
tag, that is to say, composer remains independent of corporate/academic compliance. I can show many, many examples of how "the people" want actual newlines and not "css hacks" to simulate them.

Seriously, thanks, SM Composer is still the best product in this original incarnation of on-line editing. It has been invaluable as a research too esp for pasting snippits of text from, say, googlebooks.

This is my blog on the topic: http://oddmuse.org/wiki/John_Bessa

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<html>
<head>

  <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
    <title></title>[url][/url]
</head>
<body>
   text line 1<br>
   text line 2<br>
</body>
</html>
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WaltS48
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Re: Composer: very grateful <BR> survives

Post by WaltS48 »

Well was <br> supposed to be replaced by the <p> element?

The br element forcibly breaks (ends) the current line of text, without starting a new paragraph.

br elements must be used only for line breaks that are actually part of the content, as in poems or addresses, but must not be used for separating thematic groups in a paragraph. For that you should use the paragraph element.

Any content inside br elements (i.e. attributes) must not be considered part of the surrounding text.


br · html · WPD · WebPlatform.org

But in Composer it does start a new paragraph!

The p (for paragraph) element (<p>) represents a paragraph.


p · html · WPD · WebPlatform.org

If you select "Paragraph" from the drop down in Composer you get;

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<html>
<head>

<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
<title></title>
</head>
<body>
<p>This is a test composition. I want to see what happens.<br>
</p>
<p>Now what?<br>
</p>
</body>
</html>


Now what if I'm not done with the first paragraph? Every time I press Enter it screws up my web page by creating new paragraph.
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