Well, pressing SHIFT+ Enter is a pretty standard way of creating what is called a "soft carriage return" in most word processors and also HTML editors (e.g. Dreamweaver). Below is the HTML code, followed by the WYSIWIG result. The <br /> tag is created by SHIFT+RETURN.
<p>this is a one-line paragraph</p>
<p>this is a new one-line paragraph</p>
<p>this is another line <br />
immediately followed by yet another line
</p>
this is a one-line paragraph
this is a new one-line paragraph
this is another line
immediately followed by yet another line
Please
note, however, that the soft carriage return (or <br /> tag) should be used sparingly, and CSS formatting should be preferred if one wants a number of successive lines which are not to be considered as paragraphs. For example, use list formatting (with or without bullets, numbers, etc.)
<ul>
<li>this is line 1 in a bullet list </li>
<li>this is line 2 in the same list </li>
</ul>
- this is line 1 in a bullet list
- this is line 2 in the same list
<ul style="list-style:none">
<li>this is line 1 in a non-bullet list</li>
<li>this is line 2 in the same list </li>
</ul>
- this is line 1 in a non-bullet list
- this is line 2 in the same list
Hope that helps,
Joseph
