Re: lynx-dev LYNX: sometimes need <br><br> to generate blank line

[Vlad Harchev]

On Wed, 24 May 2000, David Combs wrote:

> On Tue, May 23, 2000 at 01:19:16PM -0500, Klaus Weide wrote:
> > On Tue, 23 May 2000, David Combs wrote:
> > 
> > > (2) Re what the default is -- makes no difference for THIS
> > >     <br><br> thing (see the comment):
> > 
> > What does that mean?  Are you claiming that there is a bug and
> > that COLLAPSE_BR_TAGS has no effect?
> > 
> > Works fine for me, with this test:
> > 
> >   <TITLE>test</TITLE> line1<BR>line2<BR><BR>line3
> > 
> > 
> > >   1061  .h2 COLLAPSE_BR_TAGS
> > >   1062  # If COLLAPSE_BR_TAGS is set FALSE, Lynx will not collapse serial 
> > > BR tags.
> > >   1063  # If set TRUE, two or more concurrent BRs will be collapsed into 
> > > a single
> > >   1064  # line break.  Note that the valid way to insert extra blank 
> > > lines in HTML
> > >   1065  # is via a PRE block with only newlines in the block.
> > >   1066  #
> > >   1067  #COLLAPSE_BR_TAGS:TRUE
> > >   1068  COLLAPSE_BR_TAGS:FALSE
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > >  (3) so, it would have to be SOMETHING ELSE, I'd imagine.
> > 
> > Since you are still busy IMAGINING, it looks like you haven't
> > even tried it?
> > 
> >    Klaus
> > 
> > 
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> 
> 
> So I switched the "#", getting "TRUE":
> 
>   1061  .h2 COLLAPSE_BR_TAGS
>   1062  # If COLLAPSE_BR_TAGS is set FALSE, Lynx will not collapse serial BR 
> tags.
>   1063  # If set TRUE, two or more concurrent BRs will be collapsed into a 
> single
>   1064  # line break.  Note that the valid way to insert extra blank lines in 
> HTML
>   1065  # is via a PRE block with only newlines in the block.
>   1066  #
>   1067  COLLAPSE_BR_TAGS:TRUE
>   1068  #COLLAPSE_BR_TAGS:FALSE
> 
> 
> And then run a 2nd lynx on that http://www.fathom.com/index.html site,
> did a p in each one, one to t1 and the other to t2, and
> did a diff, and no difference at all.

 David, you have to use FALSE instead of TRUE. I tested, FALSE works fine as
expected (I tested on the examples I composed).
 

 Best regards,
  -Vlad


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