Hi,

When one creates a new Web Form / Web Wage in Visual Web Developer, besides the form element, a div element is also created. If you put the cursor inside this div element and press Enter/Return it creates a <br> element, not a <p> element. Is there any way to change this behaviour or is there any way to convert the <br> to <p> in Design view?

A <br> should only br created when you hit Shift+Enter. When you hit Enter a paragraph should always be created.

TIA

Paulo Almeida

Before somebody tells me, I know I can convert a <br> to a <p> by selecting the text line and then selecting the Paragraph <p> option on the Formatting toolbar.

But if I have a list of text lines separated by <br>, if I select all the lines and then select the Paragraph <p> option on the Formatting toolbar I only get one paragraph. I then must select each line one by one and apply this procedure, but this is tiresome.

Paulo Almeida

Designer creates BR if you are in a DIV, but it will create P on Enter if caret is in a P element. Most browsers render paragraphs with additional lines between them and designer tried to avoid this. This forum editor, for example, inserts P so typing dense lists is impossible, typing list (as opposed to use toolbar button in this forum) looks like this:

1. Item #1

2. Item #2

3. Item #3.

While most people will want

1. Item #1
2. Item #2
3. Item #3.

Mikhail,

Thank you for your answer. 

So, there is no way to force the designer to use paragraphs (<p>) instead of breaks (<br>) inside a div element.

That way, if I want to use paragraphs inside a div element I must write some text (a letter is enough), convert it to a paragraph using the Formatting toolbar "Paragraph <p>" option and from then on I will have the paragraphs inside the div element.

IMHO VWD should have an option to turn this behavior on/off because, most of the time, it's bad web design to use breaks instead of paragraphs. At least that is what the web design experts say.

Paulo Almeida