Re: layout of web pages

[Jacob Sparre Andersen <sparre@cats.nbi.dk>]

Philipp:

| Summary: no end tag required but discouraged for additional 
| white space (empty paragraph).

The end tag is _not_ discouraged. It is not _necessary_. The extra space
you get in Netscape when you have both start and end tags on P elements is
due to a serious bug in that browser.

What the specification says is that the following examples all should be
rendered as the same:

----------------------
   <P>
    Something.
   </P>
   <P>
    More.
----------------------
   <P>
    Something.
   <P>
    More.
----------------------
   <P>
    Something.
   </P>
   <P>
   <P>
    More.
----------------------

The special, and much discussed, rule that makes the third example
equivalent to the first two is that "empty paragraphs should be ignored".


Greetings,

Jacob

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