Spacing before a HTML Horizontal Line
I was setting up some signatures in HTML which will end up in Outlook. One issue I have is that when inserting a horizontal line, it inserts a large space above and a smaller space below the line. My issue is the very large space above the horizontal line. It's almost the size of a full break
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If I manually edit the signature in Outlook by setting the spacing after the text that is just before the horizontal line it's okay, but I can't do this manually for the # of them I need to edit. Here is an example of my issue:
<html>
<head>
<title>HTML Online Editor Sample</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>
<span style="font-size:12pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>This is a test</b></span></span></p>
<hr style="height: 2px; width: 99%; background-color: #848484" />
<p>
<span style="font-size:10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Text under the line</b></span></span></p>
</body>
</html>
Is there a way I can tighten the text before or after the line?
Answer
Paragraph elements <p> have some natural padding anad marggin so try to add padding: 0 and margin: 0 to them