PRB: FP98: Extra Line Spacing Inserted after Pressing ENTER

ID: Q194246

The information in this article applies to:

• Microsoft FrontPage 98 for Windows

SYMPTOMS

In Microsoft FrontPage Editor, if you press the ENTER key, 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 before 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 in FrontPage, will appear at the end of the line. The arrow will not appear when you open the page in a Web browser or in the 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.

MORE INFORMATION

For additional information about HTML, please see the following Microsoft Web site:

   http://www.microsoft.com/workshop/author/newhtml/htmlref.htm

Keywords          : fpedit 
Version           : WINDOWS:
Platform          : WINDOWS
Hardware          : MAC x86
Issue type        : kbprb

Last Reviewed: July 1, 1999