silly silly question on adding line break

  • Resolved frenchkitty

    (@frenchkitty)


    13 years, 8 months ago

    Hello,
    this is a very silly question but could someone please enlighten me as to what i’m doing wrong when trying to add a line break between the main title and text below? http://www.frenchkit.com/
    I’ve tried <p></p>,
    </br>, even   but this adds a way too big a gap. Help anyone?
    Thanks a lot
    Samia

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  • Thread Starter frenchkitty

    (@frenchkitty)

    13 years, 8 months ago

    it got erased i wrote &nbsp
    Hope you can see it now.

    dmd54

    (@dmd54)

    13 years, 8 months ago

    It’s good practice to never use <p> tags to add space between text. Since your doctype is declared as HTML5 you should use
    with no closing tag.

    If that doesn’t work you can add padding to your header tags that will let you better control the spacing.

    example:

    h1 {
padding-bottom: 5px;
}
    dmd54

    (@dmd54)

    13 years, 8 months ago

    oh that’s funny…my line break worked in this response because I forgot to stick it in backticks

    ..use

    <br>
    Thread Starter frenchkitty

    (@frenchkitty)

    13 years, 8 months ago

    Thanks dmd54 for your quick answer, i just tried
    again but still doesn’t work. Gotta run but when i get back will try the padding.
    The thing that really bugs me is that it didn’t used to be like this, it used to look just fine without having to add any code. And now just out of the blue it’s stuck to h1, aargh.

    Thread Starter frenchkitty

    (@frenchkitty)

    13 years, 8 months ago

    Just added the padding to my css stylesheet and it worked, thanks!!

    dmd54

    (@dmd54)

    13 years, 8 months ago

    I’m not a huge fan of line breaks either. I find they often time don’t work, so it’s better to control spacing with line heights, padding etc. Gives you greater control.

    Glad it worked!

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