Re: 8.1.1 News Item, <br> tags

From: Dave Page <dpage(at)vale-housing(dot)co(dot)uk>
To: Dave Page <dpage(at)vale-housing(dot)co(dot)uk>, Tino Wildenhain <tino(at)wildenhain(dot)de>
Cc: Devrim GUNDUZ <devrim(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, <pgsql-www(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: 8.1.1 News Item, <br> tags
Date: 2005-12-13 23:25:17
Message-ID: BFC508DD.7A9F%dpage@vale-housing.co.uk
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On 13/12/05 10:41 pm, "Dave Page" <dpage(at)vale-housing(dot)co(dot)uk> wrote:

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> On 13/12/05 10:33 pm, "Tino Wildenhain" <tino(at)wildenhain(dot)de> wrote:
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>> Am Dienstag, den 13.12.2005, 22:22 +0000 schrieb Dave Page:
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>> ..
>>> The problem is Josh, that if we don't insert <br> tags, everyone's articles
>>> become one big paragraph. Format how you want it to look in plain text and
>>> it'll come out OK on the site.
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>> p {white-space:pre}
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>> fixes it.
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> Cool thanks - that might fix another issue as well...

Hmm, unfortunately not the answer. It does it's job too well because it
stops the text wrapping as well as honouring whitespaces (at least it does
in Safari).

It also seems it gets ignored by IE < 6.0 which probably still accounts for
a good percentage of our visitors.

:-(

Regards, Dave

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