Problems with spacing bestween text

[chaddesign]

Whenever i hit the spacebar twice to put two spaces between words i only get
one space? Is there a setting i need to change? Also...evertime i start a new
line for a sentence or whatever i get about a 2 inch gap between the lines.
Does this make sense? If not...this is an example:

it should look like this:

test test test
test test test

but this is what happens:

test test test


test test test


test test test

[Murray *TMM*]

> Whenever i hit the spacebar twice to put two spaces between words i only

> get
> one space?

HTML only puts one space between words no matter how many times you hit the
spacebar.

> Is there a setting i need to change?

Only if you could persuade the crafters of HTML to add that capability! 8)
You can subvert this, however, by alternating a space with a non-breaking
space in your code, i.e., space - shift-ctrl-space - space -
shift-ctrl-space.

This is a very poor technique, however.

> Also...evertime i start a new
> line for a sentence or whatever i get about a 2 inch gap between the
> lines.

HTML bites you again. What you are seeing is the inherent margins on the
<p> tag. You can manage those by using CSS to control the top and bottom
margin on those tags, e.g.,

put this in the head of your page (right above </head>) -

<style type="text/css">
<!--
p { margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0; } /* adjust these values to suit */
-->
</style>

and see what happens.

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> Whenever i hit the spacebar twice to put two spaces between words i only
> get
> one space? Is there a setting i need to change? Also...evertime i start
> a new
> line for a sentence or whatever i get about a 2 inch gap between the
> lines.
> Does this make sense? If not...this is an example:
>
> it should look like this:
>
> test test test
> test test test
>
> but this is what happens:
>
> test test test
>
>
> test test test
>
>
> test test test
>
>
>