[thelist] Search Engine Article From InternetDay [OT]

Daniel S. O'Shea doshea at surfree.com
Thu Jun 21 00:04:51 CDT 2001


John,

Thanks, I never actually knew what caused it, but since I went to manual
coding, I never had the problem again.

Unfortunately, my experience through Frontpage, since at the time I didn't
know manual coding, I had no idea how to get rid of that little space. Of
course, now I do. The problem with some of those WYSIWYG programs is that
you could spend all day at the end of that text and try to hit delete and
your cursor actually isn't on that little white space code to delete it. I
can't tell you the countless times I was at the end of the last character of
one paragraph, hit delete until the first character of the next paragraph
butted up, hit the 'enter' key (<p>) and voila, the same damn eyesore of
that extra vertical space.

When dealing with hundreds of pages as I was doing before using databases,
the 'shift+enter' keys (<br><br>) instead of the 'enter' key (<p>) was much
more efficient in time. Of course, all the extra coding was more
inefficient, as it is in those programs anyway.

...and actually, with little sites I build for various small fantasy
football leagues and such, I'll still use Frontpage and the <br><br>, as it
is much faster to complete the work with no complaints from the users.

But alas, my next suggestion, for those who are addicted to the WYSIWYG,
move on to manual coding, learn some manner and form of databasing along
with a script language. It's made my time, life, etc., more efficient as
well as sounder coding for the bigger customers who expect it.

Cheers,

Dan

> Umm... sorry about this but
>
> Whilst your quick fix will do the trick, the *cause* is
> usually a single space between the end of your text, outside
> any text formatting tags and before the paragraph break.
>
> ------------------------------------------
> John Handelaar
>





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