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flib:
I'm having a really dumb issue and I've just about exhausted my ability to search for an answer.
Here's a basic example of the problem. It really seems like there ought to be some way to fix this with CSS:
--- ---<p>Hello w
orld</p>Outputs
--- ---Hello w orldRather than
--- ---Hello world
This happens because there is a linebreak between 'w' and 'world'. This is mostly an issue because this also happens with images and I would rather that it didn't.
Renegade:
It would be wrong to fix that with CSS. Line breaks serve 2 purposes: 1) Content, 2) Code Formatting. So, there's no way to determine whether the line break is one or the other there. As such, it's interpreted as a space in those cases.
e.g.
--- Code: HTML ---<p> This isa paragraph. And it has 2 sentences.</p><pre>But this is preformattedtextanddisplays asyou see it here.</pre>
I'm not sure if my spaces at the ends of the lines will be rendered here. (Most lines have no spaces.)
Try using a text editor that doesn't automatically break lines. That should solve the problem.
Renegade:
Also, have a read here:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1097006/removing-whitespace-between-html-elements-when-using-line-breaks
That addresses the image issue, though all the solutions are messy.
And check here for the authority:
http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/struct/text.html#line-breaks
flib:
Thanks, float:left; fixed it.
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