FP: Extra Line Spacing Inserted after Pressing ENTER
Article ID: 169883
Article Last Modified on 10/7/2003
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft FrontPage 97 Standard Edition
- Microsoft FrontPage 1.0 for Macintosh
This article was previously published under Q169883
For a Microsoft FrontPage 2000 version of this article, see
205659.
For a Microsoft FrontPage 98 version of this article, see
194246.
SYMPTOMS
When you press the ENTER key in Microsoft FrontPage Editor, a blank line is
inserted before the next line of text, causing the text to look double-spaced.
CAUSE
When you press ENTER in FrontPage, FrontPage inserts a paragraph
represented in HyperText Markup Language (HTML) by the <P> tag. When
rendered by a Web browser, the paragraph is displayed with a line space
above it. If your lines are short or you press ENTER when you reach the
right margin instead of allowing the text to wrap to the next line, each
line will be formatted with the <P> tag, resulting in the extra line space
between paragraphs.
RESOLUTION
To work around this behavior, insert a normal line break (<BR>) instead of
a paragraph (<P>), using either of the following methods:
- On the Insert menu, click Break, and then click OK.
A normal line break, represented by a right-angle arrow, will appear
at the end of the line. The arrow does not appear when you
open the page in a Web browser or in FrontPage Editor if you
click the Show/Hide button on the Standard toolbar to turn off the
display of non-printing characters.
-or-
- Press SHIFT+ENTER.
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