Outlook uses the closing P tag.

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"AaronD" wrote in message
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P.S.
The br tag is self closing. You only need one: br /
But the p tag is NOT. The p tag always has a beginning tag p and text
between then close it with /p.
So when Outlook just uses the p tag only, they are not using the HTML
language properly.



"AaronD" wrote:

It would help you a bit to understand the basics of HTML and the
difference
between br and p tags. The br simply breaks the line to the next.
The
p tag will break a group (or block) of (usually) multiple lines of text
and
leave a blank line afterwards.
When you are using the internet (HTML) to read an HTML email from Outlook
it
will do its job and respond accordingly (extra line / p tag).
The source of the problem, in my opinion, is Outlook. Pressing enter
while
creating an email should only go to the next line br. Pressing enter
twice
should be brbr.

You would think that if while composing an email in Outlook and it is
encoding each enter key as a p then a black space should be between
each
line.

Since Outlook is going to use HTML tags then they should be compliant to
Internet Standards.
.....JUST MY HUMBLE OPINION





"Grandmasterfuzz" wrote:

I have outlook 2007.

When I type an email in plain text it looks fine, but sometimes when
received by others extra linebreaks have been added after each "enter".
This
does not happen with all recipients, just some.

For instance, I manager a yahoo group. When I compose an email to the
group
it looks fine, but when I receive the email it is double spaced. I
spoke with
yahoo about this and they told me it is a Microsoft problem. Is there
something I can do to have emails arrive looking the same way that I
composed
them?

I read somewhere that if I shift+enter instead of enter that will solve
the
problem. It seems ridiculous that users should all have to do this
every
time. Is there an easier way to correct this problem permanently?