<br> is inserted by FCKEditor (which I guess many are using in their Wikis). Personally, I find these all over the place in oursi - and it irritaes me (even in level heading, and tables etc)
Jon.
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Katharina Wolkwitz wrote:
Hi Jack,
I'm not sure if I really understand the wherefor and why but the break
in
mediawiki is <br> not <br>.
Perhaps you could make an extra button to insert <br/>?
Greetings Katharina
You break paragraphs in MediaWiki using *two* line breaks. <br /> or <br> force a line break just as it does in html, but you /shouldn't/ need it.
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