That is certainly one way to do it - and it is better than using the <br/> tag... however, I think Wolfie's intent was to use the css on the paragraph that has text.
Instead of:
Code:
<p>This is a normal paragraph.</p>
<p>This is a normal paragraph.</p>
<p><br/></p>
<p>This is a normal paragraph with space above.</p>
<p>This is a normal paragraph.</p>
-OR-
<p>This is a normal paragraph.</p>
<p>This is a normal paragraph.</p>
<p class="space"></p>
<p>This is a normal paragraph with space above.</p>
<p>This is a normal paragraph.</p>
You could use this:
Code:
p.spacet {padding-top: 1em}
<p>This is a normal paragraph.</p>
<p>This is a normal paragraph.</p>
<p class="spacet">This is a normal paragraph with space above.</p>
<p>This is a normal paragraph.</p>
That provides clean HTML that can be consistently relied on.