In the past I used < br> tags to separate blocks of text but more recently
have used < p> tags. I'm in the process of converting pages with breaks to
pages with p text. This brings up the dilemma of separation when other
elements are involved.

I've spent an hour reading web comments, some very old, on the best or
acceptable way to create space in an HTML page but have not found a
definitive answer. If I want extra space after a paragraph or image, is it
best to use a div tag, p tag or break < br> and can the p tag be empty or
should it contain a non-breaking space? Or it better to use div tag, < div><
/div> without anything between the tags?

I've also been looking for the correct way to create a style to apply to div
text that uses p tags that will be outside the basic p tag style in the
page's external css style sheet. This would be for an internal div id in the
page. Let's say I have a div id called < div id="p5text"> and all the text
within this div is formatted using p tags, should it be an element, id or
class? I just want to apply it once to the div and not have to apply it
separately to each p tags in the div. Would it be external to the specific
page or part of the external site style sheet?

Did I explain that well enough? Hope so.

Carol


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