Hi all, First, I am CSS illiterate so HTML only, please. I have this code: <DD><h3><b>Variant Names:</b></h3> <p>Starkweather House, Merrow Farm</p> </dd> I want "Variant Names:" to be followed by "Starkweather house..." separated by a single spaced line. Instead is is double spaced as might be expected since I used <p> BUT if I use <br> instead of <p> it is triple spaced! I wouldn't agonize so much over this but I am working on a template to be used for entering data for many houses. (Which is why the results are so bizarre when you view the page.) Any ideas? The page is: http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ctmanshs/00_templat es/template_web.htm BTW my partner *really* likes indenting and uses <DL> <DD> to do this. If there are better ways of indenting that would be useful info too. Non CSS ideas, of course :-) Many thanks, George

Hi George, The problem is really that you're trying to do something that HTML really wasn't designed to do -- but it can. The The following are my best attempts. The first is straight HTML : <blockquote> <p><font size="4"><b>Variant Names:</b></font><br> Starkweather House, Merrow Farm</p> </blockquote> Note that I replaced the <dd> with <blockquote> for cleaner code (<dd> is only allowed within a set of <dl> tags). Also note that the <font> tag is deprecated and really should be replaced with styles. The above should validate as HTML 4.01 Transitional. The next replaces the <font> tag with <span> using styles: <blockquote> <p><span style="font-size: 110%;"><b>Variant Names:</b></span><br> Starkweather House, Merrow Farm</p> </blockquote> This should validate as HTML 4.01 Strict. You can see all the results at http://borisbrooks.com/testpage.htm Click view source to see the complete source. Jim Rickenbacker ----- Original Message ----- From: "George Waller" <George@waller.org> To: <rootsweb-help@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, December 19, 2009 5:15 PM Subject: [ROOTSWEB-HELP] Seeking single spaced text & indenting > Hi all, > > First, I am CSS illiterate so HTML only, please. > > I have this code: > > <DD><h3><b>Variant Names:</b></h3> > <p>Starkweather House, Merrow Farm</p> > </dd> > > I want "Variant Names:" to be followed by > "Starkweather house..." separated by a single spaced > line. Instead is is double spaced as might be expected > since I used <p> > > BUT if I use <br> instead of <p> it is triple spaced! > > I wouldn't agonize so much over this but I am working on > a template to be used for entering data for many houses. > (Which is why the results are so bizarre when you view > the page.) > > Any ideas? > > The page is: > http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ctmanshs/00_templat > es/template_web.htm > BTW my partner *really* likes indenting and uses <DL> > <DD> to do this. If there are better ways of indenting that > would be useful info too. Non CSS ideas, of course :-) > Many thanks, George > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ROOTSWEB-HELP-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message

George Waller wrote: > Hi all, > > First, I am CSS illiterate so HTML only, please. > > I have this code: > > <DD><h3><b>Variant Names:</b></h3> > <p>Starkweather House, Merrow Farm</p> > </dd> > > I want "Variant Names:" to be followed by > "Starkweather house..." separated by a single spaced > line. Instead is is double spaced as might be expected > since I used <p> > > BUT if I use <br> instead of <p> it is triple spaced! > > I wouldn't agonize so much over this but I am working on > a template to be used for entering data for many houses. > (Which is why the results are so bizarre when you view > the page.) > > Any ideas? Seems to me that just the /h3 will insert a blank line. If I'm right, then the p before the next line inserts a 2nd blank line. So either/or, not both. And at the end of the Starkweather House line, put a br not a /p or a p. If I'm not-right, hmmmm. ;) > > The page is: > http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ctmanshs/00_templat > es/template_web.htm > BTW my partner *really* likes indenting and uses <DL> > <DD> to do this. If there are better ways of indenting that > would be useful info too. Non CSS ideas, of course :-) > Many thanks, George Block-quote works, and a nested block-quote works. Whether it's what you /want/ could be up for discussion. (g) A table with blank cells before and after is another possibility. Cheryl

At 06:15 PM 12/19/2009, you wrote: ><DD><h3><b>Variant Names:</b></h3> ><p>Starkweather House, Merrow Farm</p> ></dd> ======= If you are not willing to learn CSS then there are lots of things you cannot do. Try this and see if it does what you want <.h3 style="margin-bottom:0px"><.b>Variant Names:</b></h3> <.p style="margin-top:0px">Starkweather House, Merrow Farm</p> Remove the dots after the opening < pat