[Gary]

I have webpages on a server and one day they were full of these hard
returns...some lines had 4 or 5 between each ones...some had 10 plus. As you
can imagine coding on such a page is a major pain and outside of going thru
and deleting them by hand, and risking deleting code as well, ive found no
way to do this. Yes i can delete all hard returns but the ones that actually
seperate the lines have to stay....just the mass amount between each line
must go...ive tried all i can think of with no luck...thank you...gary

[Jezebel]

What are you asking? How to delete empty paragaphs from a page? How to set
up your CSS to render paragraphs properly?

Where they come from in the first place? (Paragraphs don't magically appear
in web pages -- someone or something put them there.)

Since consecutive white space characters (including paragraphs) have no
effect on the way a page is rendered by the browser, why does it matter?




"gary" wrote in message
...
I have webpages on a server and one day they were full of these hard
returns...some lines had 4 or 5 between each ones...some had 10 plus. As
you
can imagine coding on such a page is a major pain and outside of going
thru
and deleting them by hand, and risking deleting code as well, ive found no
way to do this. Yes i can delete all hard returns but the ones that
actually
seperate the lines have to stay....just the mass amount between each line
must go...ive tried all i can think of with no luck...thank you...gary

[Gary]

first i agree they dont just magically appear...but are there none the
less...when i turn on the character map or whatever i is i can see all the
little p symbols...will the world stop spinning if they remain? no. but have
you ever had to work on code on 50+ pages where each line could have 2-22+
lines or hard returns between the next. Is a major pain...heck if i could
just get the larger gaps out in a relatively simple, productive way i would
be happy...yes i can highlight and delete...time consuming and run the risk
of accidently deleting code...can also set it to delete between
characters...not much faster than the above method...guess i was just asking
for a miracle...a program that could understnd the hard returns at the end of
lines of code should be kept while all others should be exterminated...so the
"why does ti matter" my sanity...hate the thought of the time im about to
waste highlighting and deleting all those hard returns...thanks...gary

"Jezebel" wrote:

What are you asking? How to delete empty paragaphs from a page? How to set
up your CSS to render paragraphs properly?

Where they come from in the first place? (Paragraphs don't magically appear
in web pages -- someone or something put them there.)

Since consecutive white space characters (including paragraphs) have no
effect on the way a page is rendered by the browser, why does it matter?




"gary" wrote in message
...
I have webpages on a server and one day they were full of these hard
returns...some lines had 4 or 5 between each ones...some had 10 plus. As
you
can imagine coding on such a page is a major pain and outside of going
thru
and deleting them by hand, and risking deleting code as well, ive found no
way to do this. Yes i can delete all hard returns but the ones that
actually
seperate the lines have to stay....just the mass amount between each line
must go...ive tried all i can think of with no luck...thank you...gary

[Jezebel]

If this is a document you've downloaded, just use find and replace: look for
^p^p and replace with ^p; click 'Replace all' repeatedly.






"gary" wrote in message
news
first i agree they dont just magically appear...but are there none the
less...when i turn on the character map or whatever i is i can see all the
little p symbols...will the world stop spinning if they remain? no. but
have
you ever had to work on code on 50+ pages where each line could have 2-22+
lines or hard returns between the next. Is a major pain...heck if i could
just get the larger gaps out in a relatively simple, productive way i
would
be happy...yes i can highlight and delete...time consuming and run the
risk
of accidently deleting code...can also set it to delete between
characters...not much faster than the above method...guess i was just
asking
for a miracle...a program that could understnd the hard returns at the end
of
lines of code should be kept while all others should be exterminated...so
the
"why does ti matter" my sanity...hate the thought of the time im about to
waste highlighting and deleting all those hard returns...thanks...gary

"Jezebel" wrote:

What are you asking? How to delete empty paragaphs from a page? How to
set
up your CSS to render paragraphs properly?

Where they come from in the first place? (Paragraphs don't magically
appear
in web pages -- someone or something put them there.)

Since consecutive white space characters (including paragraphs) have no
effect on the way a page is rendered by the browser, why does it matter?




"gary" wrote in message
...
I have webpages on a server and one day they were full of these hard
returns...some lines had 4 or 5 between each ones...some had 10 plus.
As
you
can imagine coding on such a page is a major pain and outside of going
thru
and deleting them by hand, and risking deleting code as well, ive found
no
way to do this. Yes i can delete all hard returns but the ones that
actually
seperate the lines have to stay....just the mass amount between each
line
must go...ive tried all i can think of with no luck...thank you...gary

[RobertVA]

Jezebel wrote:
If this is a document you've downloaded, just use find and replace: look for
^p^p and replace with ^p; click 'Replace all' repeatedly.






"gary" wrote in message
news
first i agree they dont just magically appear...but are there none the
less...when i turn on the character map or whatever i is i can see all the
little p symbols...will the world stop spinning if they remain? no. but
have
you ever had to work on code on 50+ pages where each line could have 2-22+
lines or hard returns between the next. Is a major pain...heck if i could
just get the larger gaps out in a relatively simple, productive way i
would
be happy...yes i can highlight and delete...time consuming and run the
risk
of accidently deleting code...can also set it to delete between
characters...not much faster than the above method...guess i was just
asking
for a miracle...a program that could understnd the hard returns at the end
of
lines of code should be kept while all others should be exterminated...so
the
"why does ti matter" my sanity...hate the thought of the time im about to
waste highlighting and deleting all those hard returns...thanks...gary

"Jezebel" wrote:

What are you asking? How to delete empty paragaphs from a page? How to
set
up your CSS to render paragraphs properly?

Where they come from in the first place? (Paragraphs don't magically
appear
in web pages -- someone or something put them there.)

Since consecutive white space characters (including paragraphs) have no
effect on the way a page is rendered by the browser, why does it matter?




"gary" wrote in message
...
I have webpages on a server and one day they were full of these hard
returns...some lines had 4 or 5 between each ones...some had 10 plus.
As
you
can imagine coding on such a page is a major pain and outside of going
thru
and deleting them by hand, and risking deleting code as well, ive found
no
way to do this. Yes i can delete all hard returns but the ones that
actually
seperate the lines have to stay....just the mass amount between each
line
must go...ive tried all i can think of with no luck...thank you...gary


Should find something a little more specialized than Word for editing
web pages too. I don't know about more recent versions, but Word 97 has
no way of displaying if a hard line break is the end of a paragraph
element, the end of a division element or a break. Word 97 also has a
habit of inserting a lot of spurious format elements and in line styles
for text where I would prefer to leave things to a definition in the
header or an external sheet. Demonstrations I have seen of some
Frontpage versions which seem to exibit some of the same habits.

[Jezebel]

but Word 97 has
no way of displaying if a hard line break is the end of a paragraph
element, the end of a division element or a break.

Not sure what you're referring to here. If you switch on formatting marks, paragraphs are shown as pilcrows (¶) and simple line breaks as down-left-arrow (¿). Section breaks are shown as dotted lines plus text if you switch to normal view. Word has no division breaks.


Word 97 also has a
habit of inserting a lot of spurious format elements and in line styles
for text where I would prefer to leave things to a definition in the
header or an external sheet.

Word is a computer program. It doesn't have habits.