Re:

On Fri, 28 Aug 2015 11:03:31 -0600, Anthony J. Bentley wrote:

> Dave Higton writes:
> > On Fri, 28 Aug 2015 12:50:00 +0100 Richard Torrens wrote:
> >
> > > Doing a list of genealogical notes, I wanted to space them out so there
> > > was a blank line between each record. So I replaced each <LI> by <P><LI>.
> > >
> > > This does not work in Netsurf - but does in Firefox and Chrome
> > >
> > > Is this a bug?
> > >
> > > The page in question is
> > > www.torrens.org.uk/Genealogy/Torrens/DataScot/sasines.html
> >
> > <p> opens a paragraph. You need to close it again afterwards with </p>.
>
> No, in HTML <p> does not require a closing tag except in specific
> circumstances. "The end of a <li>" is not one of those circumstances.

Also, I don't think there's any guarantee that a new paragraph
actually inserts a blank line, and starting a new paragraph in the
middle of a list seems like an odd thing to do.

I always use <br>, same as Rob suggested.

> As for the original question, I would probably use CSS to add padding or
> margin at the bottom of each li.

That's probably the correct "modern" way to do it.

Chris