Line after paragraph, CSS?

[Maggie-Me]

What code and where would I enter it if I want to add a line after each paragraph?

Thanks for any help, just starting to really look at formating the code. Thanks

[theducks]

Maggie
Ar you wanting a Horizontal Rule(<hr /> ?

If you want a full width rule with default properties, just place <hr /> between the closing </p> and the next opening <p in Code View. (hr can NOT be within a paragraph)


If you want a smaller (%) width,centered; wider; or other line style or color(s)
some CSS selector creation is called for.

Test visually, on a ADE (and maybe others) readers. WYS in Sigil-Calibre Inot WYG on thes readers.

Basically centering is not reliable on many readers.

to center a 25% width rule you make the Left Margin 32.5% to force the rule to the center.
margin-left = (100-rule_width%)/2

[Maggie-Me]

thanks, I should have been more detailed.

I am looking to add a blank line after each paragraph.

Exp...

Before:
He sniffed, said nothing. His father had been Kjartan the Cruel, a Dane who had whelped Sihtric on one of his Saxon slaves. Yet Sihtric was a good boy, though in truth he was no longer a boy. He was a man who had stood in the shield wall. A man who had killed. A man who would kill again tonight. “I’ll find you a wife,” I promised him.
It was then we heard the screaming. It was faint because it came from very far off, a mere scratching noise in the darkness that told of pain and death to our south. There were screams and shouting. Women were screaming and doubtless men were dying.


After:
He sniffed, said nothing. His father had been Kjartan the Cruel, a Dane who had whelped Sihtric on one of his Saxon slaves. Yet Sihtric was a good boy, though in truth he was no longer a boy. He was a man who had stood in the shield wall. A man who had killed. A man who would kill again tonight. “I’ll find you a wife,” I promised him.

It was then we heard the screaming. It was faint because it came from very far off, a mere scratching noise in the darkness that told of pain and death to our south. There were screams and shouting. Women were screaming and doubtless men were dying.

[theducks]

Just increase/ add a [B]margin-bottom:1em to your paragraph style (in the CSS)

(I happen to split that between margin-top: .5em and margin-bottom: .5em. and I bump the bottom to .8em for non-indented paragraphs. to please my eye )

[cybmole]

like tha man said - but in more detail.

open book in sigil, click styles in LH window. open stylesheet.css

see stuff like this
.calibre12 {
display: block;
margin-bottom: 0;
margin-left: 0;
margin-right: 0;
margin-top: 1em;
text-align: center;
text-indent: 0

tweak margin values to suit..
tip ; look at a book textpage in code view beforehand to see which style element is used for paragraphs - that is the one to locate & tweak within the stylesheet.

e.g. if book has this
<p class="calibre9">“Christine, it’s good of you to come,” Marcus said.</p>

then I need to tweak calibre9 spec.

my calibre 9 in stylesheet is
.calibre9 {
display: block;
margin-bottom: 0;
margin-left: 0;
margin-right: 0;
margin-top: 1em;
text-align: justify;
text-indent: 1em
}

that margin top value is controlling my paragraph separation

[Stuart_L]

Having a line after a paragraph is the default. Just remove any references to margin-top and margin-bottom.

[cybmole]

Originally Posted by Stuart_L

Having a line after a paragraph is the default. Just remove any references to margin-top and margin-bottom.

so anything in <p> tags defaults to having a blank line below, unless css says otherwise ?

[theducks]

Originally Posted by cybmole

so anything in <p> tags defaults to having a blank line below, unless css says otherwise ?

But do you want the default size? I find that it is too... (wrong )
OTOH line-spacing usually defaults
except the I have drop caps, or small-caps where I need to adjust the balance

[Maggie-Me]

thanks all. I like keeping the code in the set up and changing the value, this gives me what I wanted.