Re: [Lynx-dev] shouldn't <br><br> give a blank line?

[Thomas Dickey]

On Sun, Mar 09, 2008 at 12:13:13AM -0800, Stefan Caunter wrote:
> On 3/8/08, Henry Nelson <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Hi, long time no see.  Hope everyone's fine.
> >
> > I was trying to put a blank line between a couple of links with
> > two <br>'s, but they got collapsed into one carriage return.
> 
> iirc this is a specific setting in lynx.cfg

.h2 COLLAPSE_BR_TAGS
# If COLLAPSE_BR_TAGS is set FALSE, Lynx will not collapse serial BR tags.
# If set TRUE, two or more concurrent BRs will be collapsed into a single
# line break.  Note that the valid way to insert extra blank lines in HTML
# is via a PRE block with only newlines in the block.
#
#COLLAPSE_BR_TAGS:TRUE
 
> >
> > Specifically,
> >     <a href="http://someurl.com/link1.html";>Link 1</a>
> >     <br><br>
> >     <a href="http://someurl.com/link2.html";>Link 2</a>
> > Looks like:
> >     [1]Link 1
> >     [2]Link 2
> >
> > So is <p> what you're supposed to use, or do you use a literal
> > carriage return between <pre></pre> to get:
> >     [1]Link 1
> >
> >     [2]Link 2
> >
> > TIA
> >
> > __Henry
> >
> 
> Stefan Caunter
> http://caunter.ca/contact.html
> 
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