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Originally Posted by Amalthia
Is there another equivalent to <br> that does not require stylesheet coding? Because in my book the people who were coding mobipocket and MS Reader screwed things up. <br> stands for a line break not paragraph.  |
This special interpretation applies only to <br/> tags which are direct children of the <body/> element, so just wrap everything in a <div/> and you should be fine.
The problem with <br/> is that it's a purely formatting element. HTML isn't really a formatting language, especially XHTML 1.x. Instead the markup language supplies semantic constructs -- tags for headers, paragraphs, quotations, etc -- and allows any formatting for those elements the designer wants using CSS. The <br/> tag doesn't really fit this paradigm, and is best avoided (IMHO, as yes -- it isn't yet deprecated).