Somehow on my site, which I've been editting with Dreamweaver, pressing enter to start a new paragraph jumps down to the next line like it does in Microsoft Word, instead of jumping down a little extra to start a new paragraph the way it's supposed to look. To get that break between paragraphs, I've just been pressing enter twice. It might look something like this:

     <p>Hello everyone!</p>
     <p>&nbsp;</p>
     <p>Next paragraph, blah blah blah</p>

What's going on here? I thought simply doing

     <p>Hello everyone!</p>
     <p>Next paragraph, blah blah blah</p>

would give that horizontal space between paragraphs by default, when in reality it will just start on the very next line down when I do it that way.

It depends on how the paragraphs are styled.

That must be it. I wasn't thinking that the style sheet would affect that, but of course it would.

Thanks.

Better approach is not to use unwanted  

Originally Posted by cdesignz

Better approach is not to use unwanted  

those only came because the op was having to put them in to get the spacing because they didn't realise that their css was controlling the spacing. i'm sure they'll be removing them once they've modified their css

<p>Paragraph 1 blah blah blah</p>
<br>
<p>Paragraph 2 blah blah blah</p>

Here is much better code.

Originally Posted by francis84

Hello everyone!

</br> Next paragraph, blah blah blah

nope.

that inserts a line break
you need <p> for a new paragraph

(hint: line <br>reak. <p>aragraph. easy, huh?!

Agreed, adding line breaks (<br>'s) is NOT the proper way to achieve spacing. The spacing should be handled in the CSS with margins and/or padding and line-height.