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.