FP98: Extra Line Spacing Inserted After Pressing ENTER

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For a Microsoft FrontPage 97 and earlier version of this article, see 169883 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/169883/EN-US/ ) .

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Press SHIFT+ENTER.

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MORE INFORMATION

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

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms670169.aspx (http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms670169.aspx)

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APPLIES TO

Microsoft FrontPage 98 Standard Edition

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kbprb KB194246

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