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[Webdev] Links in a form.

[Webdev] Links in a form.

Dave Wilson dave.wilson at heanet.ie
Wed Sep 13 18:54:44 IST 2000


> This is probably not the best solution either, for much the same reason as
> nl2br() - it screws up layouts because <P> should always be accompanied by </P>.
> Yes, yes, the HTML spec says (or used to say, actually) that a closing <P> tag
> isn't required, but tell that to the browsers.

It's not required, but that doesn't mean it can't change behaviour :-)

> If you want to do it this way,
> it's probably best to replace with "<br><br>".

..or how about "</p> <p>", and then prefix "<p>", suffix "</p>" to the entire
string.

Dave

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