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Bug 13233 - TITLE: Suggestion for a new feature. The tags "br" and "&nbsp" are most frequently used. The suggestion is to reduce and simplify the code while using the tags "br" and "&nbsp" multiple times. Current code for three tabs:     Suggested Code
Summary: TITLE: Suggestion for a new feature. The tags "br" and "&nbsp" are most frequ...
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: LC1 HTML5 spec (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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Reported: 2011-07-13 18:17 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2011-08-04 05:15 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

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Description contributor 2011-07-13 18:17:17 UTC 
Specification: http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/
Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#top
Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#top

Comment:
TITLE: Suggestion for a new feature.

The tags "br" and "&nbsp" are most frequently used.

The suggestion is to reduce and simplify the code while using the tags "br"
and "&nbsp" multiple times.

Current code for three tabs:     Suggested Code: &3nbsp;

Current code for three newlines:  <br/><br/><br/> Suggested Code: <3br/>

Similarly, the user can use any integer(in place of 3) for the number of times
the tags needs to be repeated.


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Comment 1 Tab Atkins Jr. 2011-07-13 18:45:17 UTC 
What's wrong with copy/paste?

Second, repeated use of &nbsp; and <br> is almost certainly indicative of bad code.  Use CSS instead.
Comment 2 Aryeh Gregor 2011-07-13 22:18:37 UTC 
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Status: Rejected
Change Description: no spec change
Rationale: The change you suggest would require significant architectural changes to HTML, such as introducing an infinite number of new entities/elements or adding additional magic to the parser (so one entity/tag creates many characters/elements in the DOM).  Moreover, as comment 1 points out, using many &nbsp; or <br> in a row almost certainly indicates you're using them to create a precise amount of spacing, and you should really be using CSS instead.  Thus there's very little reason we'd want to support this, and it would be difficult to support it even if we wanted to.
Comment 3 Michael[tm] Smith 2011-08-04 05:15:32 UTC 
mass-move component to LC1