Dreamweaver - pressing enter in design view insers paragraph?!?!

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pressing enter in design view insers paragraph?!?!

Ewokuk

2005-03-06, 6:21 pm

Basically I have a very basic page with a title at the top and one picture.
All I want to do is enter a couple of lines of text but as soon as I type a
bit, then press enter, it inserts a whole new paragraph, leaving the damn
cursor about 3 lines below the other text, all I want is NORMAL, STANDARD
behaviour, press enter and it goes to the next line!

I tried turning off 'Paragraph' format in the properties window to 'none' and
it comes back the second i press enter again.

Osgood

2005-03-06, 6:21 pm

Hold down the 'shift' key when pressing enter

Ewokuk wrote:
> Basically I have a very basic page with a title at the top and one picture.
> All I want to do is enter a couple of lines of text but as soon as I type a
> bit, then press enter, it inserts a whole new paragraph, leaving the damn
> cursor about 3 lines below the other text, all I want is NORMAL, STANDARD
> behaviour, press enter and it goes to the next line!
>
> I tried turning off 'Paragraph' format in the properties window to 'none' and
> it comes back the second i press enter again.
>

Osgood

2005-03-06, 6:21 pm

That's not a good way of doing it though if you have a lot of text.

You should zero the paragrah margins/padding using css. Cut code below,
paste into your pages code directly before the closing </head> tag (its
near the top of the page, be sure to locate the one with the leading slash.

<style type="text/css">

</style>

0 0 0 0 represent top/right/bottom/left in that order.

enter amounts as desired

for instance

padding: 0 0 8px 0; would give you 8px clear space after each paragraph

Osgood wrote:

> Hold down the 'shift' key when pressing enter
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> Ewokuk wrote:
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Murray *TMM*

2005-03-06, 6:21 pm

By the way, in addition to what Osgood says, what you are describing *is*
the normal, standard behavior. When you hit enter, you begin a new
paragraph. In HTML (perhaps not in Word processing), new paragraphs are
separated by space. You control that space with CSS.

That's the truth! 8)

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> Basically I have a very basic page with a title at the top and one
> picture.
> All I want to do is enter a couple of lines of text but as soon as I type
> a
> bit, then press enter, it inserts a whole new paragraph, leaving the damn
> cursor about 3 lines below the other text, all I want is NORMAL, STANDARD
> behaviour, press enter and it goes to the next line!
>
> I tried turning off 'Paragraph' format in the properties window to 'none'
> and
> it comes back the second i press enter again.
>