While Jenn was wrapping up the article she just posted, I was showing her how to display photos side by side. But I wasn’t doing a particularly good job because despite my best efforts the images weren’t lining up right. It was offputting because:
1. I work with web technology for a living.
2. I’ve floated more divs than I could shake a stick at.
But my wife chimed in with the observation that there was an extra line in the HTML and wondered if that could be the cause. In real HTML blank lines don’t impact rendering1. (Mostly.) But we use WordPress to drive this site and blank lines get automatically converted to line breaks, thereby destroying my carefully aligned layout.
Years of marriage have paid off. Jenn is ready for a career in web design2.
1. If you’re using certain formatting, blank lines will show up. Extra lines will add to the size of the file too. So it’s mostly true, which in this case counts.
2. No she’s not.
