Extra Vertical White Space/Line Space in DW Posts

[chomiji]

Hello! I code HTML by hand. Basic like paragraph breaks and so on are pretty automatic for me (I do this in my day job too).

Whenever I code an entry using paragraph tags, blockquotes, or div - basically, the div-level containers - I get large clusters of white space at the bottom of my entry.

You can see this here: I wanted to use the blockquote tag to set off artist E.K. Weaver's comments about her feed of the "TJ and Amal" webcomic. I should be able to get normal spacing with paragraphs within the blockquote, but because of previous experiences with paragraphs, I used double line breaks, which usually works.

But, as you can see, there still is a huge block of white space between the end of the blockquote and the last sentence of the blog entry. If I remove the blockquote tags, the spacing closes up normally. But then I would not be able to set off Weaver's remarks from my own comments.

Does anyone recognize what's up with this?

I'm using the Sunday Morning layout, and I have done basic customization of the colors and the graphic, but I have not added any CSS to the template.

Comments

[foxfirefey]

Have you tried putting your post inside <raw-code>? For more info see this FAQ:

http://www.dreamwidth.org/support/faqbrowse?faqid=134

The beta entry page doesn't have a disable auto-formatting section, yet. I think they're holding to figure out how to integrate Markdown in.

[chomiji]

Well, I'm doing this with *no* autoformatting. I just tried putting the raw-code tag set outside all my code, and it doesn't make any difference.

[chomiji]

See ardath_rekha's suggestion and my response, below. DW wants XML-style line breaks. The HTML ones I was using were causing the problem.

[ardath_rekha]

Are you also coding your individual line breaks within the blockquote? If so, you might want to try using <br /> instead of just <br>. I pulled up the page source and it appears that the system is erroneously attempting to "close" the tags with a whole bunch of added </br>s at the end, which browsers are then reinterpreting as additional line breaks.

See if maybe changing your line breaks to include the / clears it up. If you hadn't actually added any line breaks to your text at all, then the problem might be somewhere else.

[chomiji]

Yes, I had line breaks. Hmm, so you're saying it's picky and wants the XML-style break tag. The one I'm accustomed to using, <br>, works perfectly fine under just about any browser, but OK.

So I went back and put the <br/> for the line breaks instead, and now it looks OK.

I wonder what's the diff between DW and LJ style sheets, because I've never had the issue over there, but now I know what it is and how to handle it. Thanks!

[momijizukamori]

Are you checking 'Disable auto-formatting' when you post?

[chomiji]

I was most certainly checking the Don't Autoformat. (I loathe the fact that Autoformat is the only option when replying to something on LJ that uses the new comment form.)

It looks like my problem was that I was using old-school HTML line break tags, <br>, and DW wants the XML (self-closing) version, <br/> It was trying to close the breaks by adding <br/> wherever the last legitimate open-close tag pair ended, so I was getting stacks of extra <br/> at the bottom of my entries. ardath_rekha called it exactly right (above).

So yeah, it looks like all I have to do is add the extra keystroke in the tag when I want to code a line break. And both versions (with or without the slash) work on LJ, so I should be good to go with the cross-posted versions as well.

[momijizukamori]

Aha! Glad you got it sorted. 'Don't autoformat' seemed like it might be a culprit, so I thought it was worth mentioning *g*