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

[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*