13233 2011-07-13 18:17:17 +0000 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 2011-08-04 05:15:32 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified HTML WG LC1 HTML5 spec unspecified Other other RESOLVED WONTFIX http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#top P3 normal --- 1 contributor ian ayg jackalmage mike public-html-admin public-html-wg-issue-tracking public-html-bugzilla oldest_to_newest 50969 0 contributor 2011-07-13 18:17:17 +0000 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: 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. Posted from: 123.236.10.186 User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:6.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/6.0 50975 1 jackalmage 2011-07-13 18:45:17 +0000 What's wrong with copy/paste? Second, repeated use of   and is almost certainly indicative of bad code. Use CSS instead. 50982 2 ayg 2011-07-13 22:18:37 +0000 EDITOR'S RESPONSE: This is an Editor's Response to your comment. If you are satisfied with this response, please change the state of this bug to CLOSED. If you have additional information and would like the Editor to reconsider, please reopen this bug. If you would like to escalate the issue to the full HTML Working Group, please add the TrackerRequest keyword to this bug, and suggest title and text for the Tracker Issue; or you may create a Tracker Issue yourself, if you are able to do so. For more details, see this document: http://dev.w3.org/html5/decision-policy/decision-policy.html 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   or 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. 53596 3 mike 2011-08-04 05:15:32 +0000 mass-move component to LC1