pre tag

[writetonsharma]

There is a table inside a paragraph. The cell inside the table has extra new line. Below is relevant part of the code.

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Now when I remove the pre tag from outer most  para, the new lines is not seen. Any ideas why this is happening?
thanks

ns.

		
	

[joshuanhibbert]

I would suggest running that through a validator, as there are quite a few problems with that, the biggest of which is wrapping a bunch of block level element with a paragraph. Here is a good validator: http://validator.w3.org/check

[writetonsharma]

Thanks. I will do it.

[writetonsharma]

I have total-validator installed as a plugin in firefox. I validated with that and changed the HTML. instead of pre tag, I used “white-space: pre” as a style for para and it looked good. Thank for the tip @joshuanhibbert.

I have a question:
when i give a new line after the para tag, the browser adds small amount of horizontal space after the text (may be couple of pixels):

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But when I give this way:

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There is no space after the text. Does HTML code spacing(new line) also has effect on how the HTML will look in the browsers?

[joshuanhibbert]

It does if you are rendering elements as inline, but shouldn’t if you are rendering them as block level.

[writetonsharma]

What do you mean by this? Should I use paragraphs as inline ?

[joshuanhibbert]

Paragraphs are block level by default, and therefore shouldn’t render white space. If they are, then there must be some overriding styles somewhere causing that.

[writetonsharma]

ok. Thanks for your help.

[joshuanhibbert]

No worries.

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