[thelist] Last line of paragraph has 'deeper' line break - why?

Kelvin Markham km at km.com.au
Thu Nov 22 18:27:09 CST 2001


Thank you Robert and Martin,
for your very helpful solutions

KM

Robert Goodyear wrote:
> 
> Get rid of the whitespace between your </font> and the </p>,
> thus:
> 
> hgkhghgjh jhgjhgjg jhgjgjhg.</font></p>
> 
> The unstyled text (blank spaces) are pushing open your line
> height.
> 
> /rg
> 
> --- Kelvin Markham <km at km.com.au> wrote:
> > Page produced in Frontpage 2000, browsers Netscape 4.7 and/or
> > Explorer
> > 5.5
> >
> > normal old text entry in webpage looks like this;
> > <p><font size="2" face="Arial">Devonport is gateway to Cradle
> > Mountain
> > National Park and other wilderness attractions. Marketed in
> > conjunction
> > with Devonport City, the Australian
> > Tourist Commission and the Cruising Down Under Association, a
> > variety of
> > shore excursions have been developed to cater for the interests
> > of
> > cruise ship passengers.</font>
> > </p>
> ...
> > the first three line breaks evenly space the lines from each
> > other but
> > the last one is about 20% MORE! The variation is more
> > pronounced when
> > the page is printed out. This seems to occur in lots of paras
> > on all
> > sorts of sites and there's nothing in the html code that seems
> > to cause
> > it.
> >
> > The baffling thing is that some paragraphs on the same page
> > still turn
> > out fine! If the problem occurred consistently there would be
> > some ryme
> > or reason indicated but it's got me stumped, does anyone know
> > how or why
> > this happens and is there a solution?
> >
> > KM
> 
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