html in component

[Bendy]

Hi all,
I am sure this must be in lots of threads, but a brief search failed for me so here goes.

I am trying to ad a carriage return (new line) in the "HTML for name" in the component section to look like this..

The Kitchen Appliance Centre
85 Hinckley Road
Leicester, LE3 0TD

15 High Street
Daventry, NN11 4BG

i tried using the \n code that worked ok for importing, but this didnt work.

Thanks in advance

www.quality-appliances.co.uk

[Sean Williams]

Hello Adrian
try this

!!<<br />>!!

or this

!!<<br/>>!!

I don't think it matters much, although I have a feeling the first one works better across all the browsers/versions.

[Steve G Griggs]

Hi Adrian & Sean
<br /> ( !!<<br />>!! in Actinic of course) is the rcommended way to do a line-break, it works across all browsers, and if you are worried about such things is W3C compliant.
I have had some funny things happen to my HTML using <br/> with some browsers.

[DannyBoy]

<br/> is not a valid html line-break it doesn't exist, thats why you would get some browsers not liking it. The correct line break format is dependant on which html doctype you are declaring. I think for actinic you are using the Xhtml doctype which uses self-closing tags and therefore the correct method would be: <br /> the [space] before the[ /] makes it a valid xhtml self-closing tag. If you were using html doctype then <br> is the correct format to use.

\n is used in server-side programming languages like php and perl for newline.

[Bendy]

Thanks for all that