Soft or Hard Returns for Spacing

Question

When I hit a hard return in a paragraph where I would like a
line break, it drops the next line down further than I would like
it, so I usually a soft return, and it gives it a <br /> tag
instead of a <br> tag. Is this a bad practice to keep hitting
soft returns and filling the html with <br /> tags. Is there
a better way to have a line break?
Also, I have a habit of just hitting return to get further
down, for example:
A line of spaced out copy
A line of spaced out copy
etc.
Is this a bad technique to be hitting return so much?

Answer 1

>> Is this a bad practice to keep hitting soft returns
and filling the html
>> with <br /> tags.
Yes. It creates sloppy, hard to maintain code and if the
visitor increases
their font size the page will look really wonky.
> Is there a better way to have a line break?
Yes. Learn to use CSS to set the top/bottom margins (or
padding in some
circumstances) of your paragraphs. (<p>text
here</p>)
Walt
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> When I hit a hard return in a paragraph where I would
like a line break,
> it
> drops the next line down further than I would like it,
so I usually a soft
> return, and it gives it a <br /> tag instead of a
<br> tag. Is this a bad
> practice to keep hitting soft returns and filling the
html with <br />
> tags.
> Is there a better way to have a line break?
> Reason I am asking is a guy looked at the html and said
why are there <br
> />
> tags everywhere?
>