For the whole day of mostly rain in the morning and some fluffy white clouds in the afternoon, I’ve been playing around with my widgets, all nine ‘text widgets’ and nine ‘RSS feed widgets’. I wanted to get some useful weblinks ‘programmed’ into these little suckers. And I am well pleased so far with the overall layout but earlier couldn’t figure out how to ‘break a line’ with the correct CSS tag.
After many failed searches online of looking for my answers, I almost gave up trying to fix a few widgets by ‘retagging’ and saving several times throughout the day. I thought of cross training myself in CSS programming. A few minutes ago, I remembered the <faq.wordpress.com> weblink, found the ‘CSS’ tag and came across <w3schools.com>.
The ‘w3schools’ weblink was listed as one of the places to find help with CSS and it was totally useful to me. I learned in a few minutes that all I needed was the < br > tag, which helps to break lines in a paragraph. I’ve been using the < ul >, < li > and < ol > tags but those didn’t seem to be what I had wanted after all the hours wasted. I noticed a marked ‘tab over’ for each ‘break’ in the lines.
And the words ‘wrapped’ to the next line, which I didn’t want at all and I was pissed. All I wanted as the next lines to appear lined up all along to the left. If I had not switched from the ‘Contempt’ theme to the current ‘Digg 3’ theme, I would not have discovered the simplicity of using the < br > tag to solve my woes with widgets.
Addendum-10:51PM 02-22-2008: I’m back here to report that the < p > tag (for paragraph) means an ‘extra line’ or white space widens the gap between each line . With the < br > tag, the lines are now squeezed together for cozier appearance. Plus, it saves space for later on when I decide to add more links later on.
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