To alter the space between paragraphs there is one simple, foolproof method and one slightly more complicated one that works most of the time.

The easy one is just to do shift-return at the end of a line - this sends your text to the next line but doesn't make a new paragraph. So if you're using css the look remains the same, if you're in a bullet list you won't make a new bullet point, if you're using a header style that continues to the next line.

But .... it always works and it takes out the space between chunks of text. Just takes it out, doesn't modify it.

Define or redefine the p element in your style sheet - if you only want this effect on some pages, and it's an external style sheet, open your external style sheet, save a copy of it under a different name such as pspace.css and save it into your website folder. Unlink the previous external style sheet and link the new one instead.

Now redfine the p tag like this like this:

If you want some paragraphs to have a different spacing, make a class called something like .bottommargin20, change the margin and apply it by putting your cursor in a paragraph and applying it via the css palette - use 'Para'.

All this is OK except in 3 or 4 versions or sub-versions of Netscape 4, but you can't have everything. If total browser compatibility is all, don't use the margin setting.

Be careful about using different paragraph spacings in the same chunk of text - margins 'collapse' (thanks Freda).

That is, if two different margins are 'facing each other', that is a margin below one paragraph and another above the next paragraph, only the larger one will show up. Most of the time.