<BR> between input box and quantity

[pinbrook]

<br />
<span class="actrequired"><Actinic:Variable Name="OtherInfoPrompt"/></span><br /><br />
<input type="text" name="O_<Actinic:Variable Name="ProductReference"/>" size="40" maxlength="1000" value="" />
</actinic:block>

<actinic:block if="%3cactinic%3avariable%20name%3d%22IsDatePromptShown%22%20%2f%3e">
<br />
<span class="actrequired"><actinic:variable name="DatePrompt"/></span><br />
<actinic:variable name="DayList" /><actinic:variable name="MonthList" /><actinic:variable name="YearList" />
</actinic:block>

<actinic:variable name="AttributeList" />
<actinic:variable name="ComponentList" />

<actinic:block if="%3cactinic%3avariable%20name%3d%22IsQuantityPromptShown%22%20%2f%3e">
<br />
<span class="actrequired"><Actinic:Variable Name="QuantityPrompt"/></span>
&nbsp;
<input type="text" name="Q_<Actinic:Variable Name="ProductReference"/>" size="4" value="<Actinic:Variable Name="DefaultQuantity"/>" />
</actinic:block>

code is taken from CSS product llayout

I'm trying to get a line beak between the other info prompt and quantity box, there seems to be plenty in the code, but none on the output page

http://www.rannochsmokery.co.uk/acat...ns.html#aGIFT4

[jont]

Could this in the CSS be causing the fault?

.content_right {
text-align: left;
float: left;

[pinbrook]

You're going to have to explain your thinking here jont, as those statements are horizontal placers, thus why would that affect vertical spacing?

I was thinking of separating the lines

<span class="actrequired"><Actinic:Variable Name="OtherInfoPrompt"/></span><br /><br />

and

<span class="actrequired"><Actinic:Variable Name="QuantityPrompt"/></span>

with <BR> but that doesn't work,

so you could be right, I don't understand how though

[jont]

Not sure if <br /> is classed as a block level element - if not this could be causing the problem.

Unable to play live on the site in real-time with Firefox as the css code is not revealing itself properly

[pinbrook]

Not sure if <br /> is classed as a block level element - if not this could be causing the problem.

that was it, I moved the <br> outside of the block statements.

New one on me, cheers Jont

[mike_howles]

Just to clarify a bit.

A SPAN element is an inline element and a single <BR /> will only put a single CR, in order to create a space between lines you would need to place 2 <BR />'s together:

<SPAN>TEXT</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>TEXT</SPAN>

Would create:

TEXT

TEXT

Block elements will always create their own CR's (as in the <P> element).

We are lucky that browsers are so forgiving with HTML, I was brought up on SGML, now thats a mans markup language!!

Mike