On Tuesday 31 July 2007 01:10:55 Jens Frank wrote:
On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 02:20:06AM +0200, Daniel Arnold wrote:
Anyways the linebreak would be still a cool thing we currently don't have in MediaWiki: http://www.wikicreole.org/wiki/AllMarkup#section-AllMarkup-Linebreaks
There's <br>, no?
Hm well there is "<a href" too... ;-) But none likes writing it, wikisyntax is much easier (and causes less input errors).
The same is with br. There are several possibilities writing br. The correct one is <br /> but you can see <br> all around. A correct nice br has 6 characters. \ would be just two and there's no doubt about the syntax.
But there's another heavily used br style:
<br style="clear:both;" />
This is equal to a page break you can often find after a chapter in a book. In Wikipedia for example it is often used in order to clearly separate different article objects (for example navigation bars use it very often) or article some article chapters, where free flow of elements into the next chapter would cause layout confusion.
So how about - for chapter break aka <br style="clear:both;" />?
\ and - would be a cool thing and would be extensively used (even in discussions I sometimes need a br cause a full empty line is visually too much separation and makes people think that these were two different people).
Just look into random Wikipedia articles. Br in thes two variants (very often with wrong html syntax) is the most used html element not covered by Wikisyntax.
Arnomane