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Originally Posted by SBT
<p> has a default top and bottom margin, <div> does not.
Both are block-display elements, but <p> only permits embedding inline-display elements. You can partially work around this by redefining the display property from inline to block for e.g. <span> elements, but it feels a bit icky...
The only downside I can see is by replacing <p> with <div> is that paragraphs are not separated by a blank space in readers that do not support CSS. |
There is yet other downsides to replacing <p> with <div>. Reading the code looking just for those places where you actually want/need a <div> is harder. Also, to do the paragraph styles for most paragraphs, you'd have to do <div class="style"> where you can just do a <p> and define what <p> is. In ePub (via ADE), this makes the page numbers more accurate not using <div> where not wanted/needed.