Mike R

I have a question about best practice in html coding. If I want to separate a heading from a paragraph by 1 line, should I put <p>HEADING</p> PARAGRAPH TEXT ETC ETC or should I put <p>HEADING <p>PARAGRAPH TEXT ETC ETC ??

Also, is it best to use <b> or <strong> for bold text?

SJ_Skyline

best practice to close your tags </p>

<b> <strong> - not to sure (sure one of the uber-css guys will be better help!)

AdrianFRST

Use <br> for a single line break. Always close your tags too <p> then </p> at the end of the paragraph. so:

<p>
HEADING<br>
PARAGRAPH TEXT ETC ETC
</p>

For XHTML compliance you should use stylesheets for all text formating: <span style="font-weight: bold;">HEADING</span>

For HTML 4.01 <b> and <strong> do the same, <b> is obviously less to type so quicker to code.

It's good practice to use CSS, masses of info and tutorials on http://www.w3schools.com

AdrianFRST

Even better if you link to an external stylesheet.

In style.css:

.heading
{
font-weight: bold;
}

In your page header:

<link href="style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">

And the body:

<span class="heading">HEADING</span>

That way if you decide you want italic not bold, all you need to do is change the .heading entry in style.css and it affects all your headings defined with the heading class.