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That worked & had no effect on the size of my "Navigation" div in either EI or Firefox like the original suggestion did. I tweaked it to: And it looks great. Thanks for the help. Everything I've learned about HTML, CSS & site design has come from months of research & study of online tutorials. It about drove me mad but things finally started to click and I was able to come up with the admittedly very basic designs I have such as the one shared here. There are times though, like with this issue, where I just can't solve the puzzle and feel like my brain is going to melt from the effort. Finding this community forum is a Godsend. I expect I'll be back more than once as I continue to build my site.

Having added the code as suggested I entered some random text using both <p> and <br> tags throughout. With IE it displays correctly. With Firefox the <p> generated space seems a tad large and the <br> tag causes a space as big as the <p> tag displays with IE. How do I tell Firefox to display it correctly? It has also affected the size of my "Navigation" Div... the height has increased and is encroaching on my "header" div.

Awesome! Thank you very much.

Oh, I named the CSS file: columns2.css And this is the basic html layout I linked to it:

Hi, I'm a couple steps above a newby at web design & I'm building a new site to replace the mess an "expert" built me. I've created a basic page layout (for interior site pages - not the main index) and have encountered an issue I've never run across when creating the most basic of html pages before. I'll include my CSS code below but the issue is: When adding text to the "content" div the <p> tag doesn't create a space between paragraphs. The text displays like one giant paragraph with lines separated as if I'd used a <br> tag. (Which I haven't) Here's my CSS code for the page: Have I missed something obvious here? How do I get the <p> tag to cause a visible break between paragraphs in the "content" div? (and the "leftcolumn" div if necessary) Any help with this would be greatly appreciated. I've never attempted anything this ambitious before and thought I was doing ok until this issue cropped up when I began trying to actually add content to my html page linked to this CSS page. Thanks