- Adding Text
- Cutting, Copying, and Pasting Text
- Dragging and Dropping Text
- Using Paste Special
- Applying Headings
- Applying Character Formats
- Changing Fonts and Font Sizes
- Making Your Own Font Lists
- Changing Font Color
- Applying Text Styles
- Using Preformatted Text
- Adding Line Breaks
- Indenting Text
- Aligning Text
- Working with Lists
- Setting List Properties
- Nesting Lists
- Inserting Special Characters
- Adding Automatic Dates
- Adding Horizontal Rules
- Finding and Replacing
- Finding Text with a Simple Search
- Performing Advanced Text Searches
- Finding and Replacing in Source Code
- Finding and Replacing with a Specific Tag
- Using Regular Expressions for Searching
- Checking Spelling
Adding Line Breaks
Just as in a word processor, you press Enter (Return) in Dreamweaver to create a new paragraph. This is fine when you want to actually create a new paragraph, but not so great when you just want to move the cursor down a line, as you might want to do when entering an address. That's because Web browsers (and Dreamweaver) insert a blank line above and below a paragraph, so if you make each line of the address its own paragraph, it looks goofy (Figure 4.23).
![Figure 4.23](/content/images/chap4_9780321503022/elementLinks/th04fig23.jpg)
Figure 4.23 Paragraphs have whitespace before and after them, which isn't really appropriate for things like addresses.
What you want to do is add a line break, which moves the cursor down one line without creating a new paragraph. In the code, Dreamweaver adds the HTML <br /> tag to the end of the line.
To insert a line break:
At the end of the line you want to break, press Shift-Enter (Shift-Return).
or
At the end of line you want to break, in the Text tab of the Insert Bar, select Line Break from the Special Characters pop-up menu.
The text changes (Figure 4.24).
Figure 4.24 After you replace the paragraph tags with line breaks, the address looks better.