Anders Wegge Jakobsen wrote:
"Timwi" == Timwi <timwi(a)gmx.net>
writes:
No, not at all. Such br's often break floating
images, especially
when there is more than one on a page.
Why say break, when it's the intended purpose?
When I say "break" I mean it's *NOT* the intended purpose. 99% of all
<br>s I have seen on en did *NOT* accomplish the intended purpose and
instead "broke" things.
I'm talking about pages like
<http://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonde_%28skak%29>, which would look
quite broken if the text could not be aligned where it's supposed to
be.
This is a good example of the rare page where the <br> tags are useful
and used correctly.
If you add a
<br style="clear: right;" />, you will cause not only
other images, but also text and headings to move below existing
right-floating images.
Often, that's the point of doing so.
That's not what the examples I saw were trying to accomplish (or when
they were, they were doing it in a place where it was inappropriate,
such as forcing the See Also section underneath a lengthy taxobox; why
do you want to do that?).
Timwi