I've notice that if you use a closing paragraph tag, it apparently breaks the HTML rendering, leading to pargraphs running together. So: blah blah <P> blah blah seperates properly but: <P> blah blah </P> <P> blah blah </P> does not even though, as I understand it, it is more correct.

dup of bug 35772? (by way of bug 14030) Brief explanation by Sean Richardson also found in bug 37349 (another dup)

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 14030 ***

Those bugs are about empty paragraphs. They were also fixed well before this was reported. Reopening. What, exactly, is the problem here?

No, this is a strict DTD issue. It is an invalid page messed up by the strict DTD.

According to the W3C for HTML 4 closing tags of a paragraph are optional so it shouldn't be considered invalid by the strict DTD.

As David mentioned, the page is invalid ( not talking about Pragraph tags ), and therefore, is getting messed up in Strict DTD. Sterno, if you remove the DOCTYPE the problem will go away. Note: I removed the </P> from your document, to verify if your claim was true, and that did not fix the problem!

Sorry, didn't understand what you were saying about the strict DTD. I have since gotten to work just fine with the loose DTD. Thanks!

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