At first glance, it looks like you are not opening/closing  <p>paragraphs</p> properly. Maybe the style sheet is compensating for that in some sections (such as in the preview page).

update: the problem actually was not opening  <p>. Closing  </p> is more-or-less optional.

Bah, you younglings and your newfangled ideas.

When I learned HTML, it didn't have such silliness as </p>... :) Actually, I'm not kidding, there really WASN'T a /p tag.

Seriously, thanks for pointing that out; I've been using <p> as a separator instead of a container for way too long...
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Mike

Actually, I'm not kidding, there really WASN'T a /p tag.

Heh. Yeah, that was back before there was a BR tag too. In fact, the P tag basically functioned as a BR. But by the time the first HTML RFC was published, BR was ubiquitous and paragraph breaks became paragraphs and were no longer empty elements. Sure, the /P end tag has remained optional but that's just no excuse. ;-)

Now, if I could just teach myself to write those BRs as <br/>. . .

-sauoq
"My two cents aren't worth a dime.";

I remember too when <P> was a separator. I still do that on PM because it's faster, but use the new way on web pages (and use a validator).

I hate the P.
I love the BR.
In fact, I'm using it right now!
I don't know why, but I have never liked the P. I like it as a verb... very satisfying. But not as an HTML tag.

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++ to you, great diagnosis. That solved my problem, and from now I'll do the correct XML thing and use opening and closing p tags.

--t. alex
but my friends call me T.

ps Including this node, OF COURSE!!

I've always wondered about this too and am guilty of never using </p> tags. Thanks for the clarification. However, regardless of whether you close tags or not the resulting pages should be displayed consistently preview mode or otherwise. Hopefully this will be corrected, or are there reasons for treating the preview mode differently?

--Jim

All of you who "voted for" unclosed <p> and lots of <br> should read the section "Use <br/> Tags VERY Sparsely" of How do I post a question effectively?. It put out clearly what's cool and what's not.

Unfortunately, Writeup Formatting Tips fails a bit in that respect. Actually it even suggests using single <p> and <br> without a slash... and I'd love to see that corrected, and maybe even a link to more info there...

So long,
Flexx