Is <p>&nbsp</p> the same as <br />?

Hello,

Is <p>&nbsp</p> the same as <br />?
(a simple yes or no will do)

- Tony

 

no.

<br/> or break is like enter so when you open the file there's just empty space which you can not select.


while &nbsp is like the if you have pressed the space button on your keyboard so if you type <p>&nbsp</p> it will still look like emty space but you will be able to select part of it with your cursor.

Anyway there is no visual difference but things like &nbsp are thought to be obsolete and will probably dissapear soon (next 4-5 years)

 

only if you're a re-re writing idiotic bloated code using some sort of half assed WYSIWYG...

P should wrap TEXT, you want a break between your text, that's padding or margin's job in the CSS.

I just recently saw a steaming pile of a website for a PHP framework that was doing this type of idiocy:

<p>Paragraph about something</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>Another paragraph</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>Another paragraph</p>

Code (markup):

Rendering the p with no margins/padding and then using the empty P to insert the blank line -- Which is just, sorry to say, rubbish idiotic markup written by someone who doesn't grasp what paragraphs are and/or are for. Of course that same trash website was using P+STRONG to do H2's job, P+NBSP+asterisks to do UL's job, and a whole host of other nonsense that showed the coder in question has no malfing business writing HTML in the first place.

P is a perfectly good block level container -- margin it or pad it, don't waste markup on a blank line that your existing P should already be providing you!

 

i think..no..

 

Remember HTML is meant to describe content. If you have a piece of text then it should normally be placed within <p> tags.

As a general rule I try to avoid using <br> at much as possible. In fact, the only time I seem to use them is when creating contact forms etc.

 

<br/> or break is like enter.
<p>&nbsp</p> it will still look like emty space

 

No
<br /> use for line break no extra space up & down
<p>&nbsp</p> it will still look like emty space

 

<br /> - For line break
<p>&nbsp</p> - it shows empty space

 

<br/> are used to break the line where as <p>&nbsp;</p> Browsers automatically add some space before and after each element.And also <p>&nbsp;</p> will take more space as compare to <br/>

 

Except that most of the twits and ninnies using the non-breaking space inside the P (pay attention to that &nbsp have stripped padding and margins off their paragraphs, which is why said morons seem to think they need that extra markup -- they're using P incorrectly.

 

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