Preserved Topic: Quick question about CSS

When I use a style tag, H3 for instance, for some reason when I close that tag, it automatically creates something similar to 2 <br>'s.

For instance:

<h3>hello</h3>
<h3>hello</h3>
<h3>hello</h3>

would read like:

hello


hello


hello


wheras, I need it to look like:

hello
hello
hello

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For this certain project i am working on, i HAVE to close the tags, so I have to use </h3>. Is there any way to get the desired text effect WITHOUT having to drop the </h3> ?

thanks... i know that was confusing

Ya lost me, why are you using H3 tags ?
can you post the code your working with and explain better what you want to do......

<h1> through <H6> are headline tags, that's the effect you should get....
headlines are supposed to be seperated.... please explain more if you can....

i was just using that as an example.

assuming that h3 was specified in a css file as follows:

H3{
font-size : 11px;
font-style :normal;
font-weight : bold;
color: #FFFFFF;
text-decoration: none;
font-family: Verdana,Arial,Sans-Serif;
}

and then I used the <h3>hello</h3> in an HTML document.

why does the </h3> make line breaks? I want to put text right next to or right below the word "hello". Currently, the any other text that i put after the </h3> is showing up a couple lines below the word. Understand?


edit: so ..... using something other than <h1-h6> would fix my problem?

[This message has been edited by acidbox (edited 01-05-2002).]

I can't understand why you Must use <headline tags>

couldn't you use

<dl>
<dt> hello </dt>
<dt> hello </dt>

and just change the, "H3" reference in your style sheet to "dl" ?

edit-(I made exactly what you refered too, changed the "h3" reference to "dl" and it worked great, but if you must use h3 tags, i'm out of suggestions...)

[This message has been edited by Synthetic (edited 01-05-2002).]

i understand that, but the whole thing is that i HAVE to use <h3></h3>.... i know it sounds stupid, but i have to. So I was just wondering if there was some way to eliminate that break at the end.

So you must use them in seperate H3 tags, and you don't want any spaces in them... I'll check it out, but the main purpose of a headline tag is to be seperate from the rest.....

(edit= re phrased my statment)

[This message has been edited by Synthetic (edited 01-05-2002).]

Are the lines, together in the document? I mean do you need them in seperate H3 tags?

<h3> hello <br> hello </h3>

would give you

hello
hello

can you only use only 1 set of h3 tags?

ya, they have to be in seperate H3 tags.. ie <h3>hello</h3><h3>hello</h3>

Ausra, what do u mean "first set of h3 tags? If you have another idea, throw it out there and i'll see what ya mean.

Well, first ask yourself if you're using the H tags for their intended purpose, which is *headings*. If you're not, just use a span tag or something more appropriate to create the effect.

If you *are* using them for headings, and for some reason they are just headings without any content associated with them, then just add

margin-bottom:0px;
margin-top:0px;

and fiddle with the exact values (zero may be too extreme).

(If that doesn't do the trick, try also padding-top and padding-bottom, and line-height, and line-spacing.)

Slime, that seems to work. I have to play with it to get it to look right, but I think I'm on the right track now. Thanks a lot. Thanks to everyone else for the effort too

perhaps you could use the property line-height and specify how far apart the lines should be?