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Re: lynx-dev <center> inserts <p>

From: Greg Marr
Subject: Re: lynx-dev <center> inserts <p>
Date: Thu, 17 Sep 1998 08:53:18 -0400 
At 03:37 AM 9/17/98 -0400, you wrote: 
>for the past few months Yahoo's Reuter/AP stories have annoyingly
>contained a long list of links spaced down the centre of the screen:
>today, this has been cleaned up due to revised HTML. 
>the problem was in fact how Lynx 2-8pre.2 renders 

>Lynx is adding the equivalent of <P> after each centred line.
>i'm willing to investigate further in the HTML specs,
>but first does anyone have any comments?

According to the HTML specs, <CENTER> is shorthand for <DIV ALIGN="CENTER">.

Thus, 
<HTML>
<HEAD><TITLE>Test page: centring & line spacing</TITLE></HEAD>
<BODY>
<center>line 1</center>
<center>line 2</center>
end of test
</BODY></HTML>

is really

<HTML>
<HEAD><TITLE>Test page: centring & line spacing</TITLE></HEAD>
<BODY>
<DIV ALIGN=center><P>line 1</P></DIV>
<DIV ALIGN=center><P>line 2</P></DIV>
<P>end of test</P>
</BODY></HTML>

So, lynx is rendering this correctly.

To do this without any paragraph breaks, it should be

<HTML>
<HEAD><TITLE>Test page: centring & line spacing</TITLE></HEAD>
<BODY>
<DIV ALIGN=center>
<P>
line 1<br>
line 2<br>
</DIV>
<P>
end of test
</BODY></HTML>

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