Posted by Stan McCann on 10/18/59 11:39

"Smiley" <none@ofyourbusiness.com> wrote in
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> "Stan McCann" <me@stanmccann.us> wrote in message
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>> "Smiley" <none@ofyourbusiness.com> wrote in
>> news:x7ydnY-sV6d-SXbeRVn-rg@golden.net:
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>> And very poor coding practices. <br> and &nbsp; should rarely be
>> used. And any time you have more than one together, something is
>> wrong.
>>
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> Why is that?

If you have to ask, you're not going to care what I say anyway but
here goes.

<br> is often misused (as in the code I saw) to add vertical space.
That is a purely presentational thing when we have CSS for
presentational purposes. Use CSS instead.

&nbsp; is often misused (as in the code I saw) to add horizontal
space. That is a purely presentational thing when we have CSS for
presentational purposes. Use CSS instead.

The solution to the woes asked about are simple. Learn HTML and CSS.

It wasn't that long ago that I was creating pages that way too so I do
understand how and why people come up with code like that. I then
started really learning HTML and CSS. I don't edit pages in Netscape
Composter anymore.

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