daniil's Journal: Stupid Slashdot trick

Hi. I've noticed that some of you have problems with <p> tags after the first paragraph interpreted as <br>. Well, to be honest, that is not at all the case. It's simply that the new version of Slash behaves a bit differently from the old one: namely, it still automagically closes all the <p> tags, but leaves out the first paragraph.

As far as I can tell, there's two workarounds for this problem (well, three -- you could always just not use HTML and go with plain text and no links or other fancy HTML stuff ;). The obvious one is starting all paragraphs with <p> and closing them with </p>. But if you're lazy, you could always simply put a <p> in front of the first paragraph.

That's it. Have a nice day.

What’s the big deal?

[BandwidthHog]

I don’t get all the bitching. I use “Plain Old Text” and simply add HTML where necessary, such as <a href=, the occasional <b> and <i> tags, maybe some <blockquote> if I’m feeling frisky. But I never muck around with paragraphs and line breaks other than hitting the enter key twice at the end of a paragraph.

Of course, this post is tag fucking soup, but that’s because I’m trying to make a point. (Well, that and the fact that I insist on using quotation

It Was Not Only Affecting Me

[mercedo]

I put pee, pee

instead of pee

after the first paragraph, then the matter solved.