Were there changes made to the main site navigation bar?

[silent11]

It seems that some <br /> tags have wandered into the site navigation bar (at the top of the page). What was the reasoning behind that? Perhaps I missed the node stating that this change would take place. Perhaps it's always been like this, but for some reason IE and Mozilla started rendering things differently starting just a few days ago, AFAIK.
Anyway, the *new* format actually bothers me. Is there any way to get those tags out of there. I see that I can control the <td> tag around the links with the .monktitlebar style sheet class, but I don't think CSS can override a <br> tag.
So if anybody knows (when||if||why) this change took place I'd be interested in knowing.
Thanks,
silent11

[grinder]

It looks like someone finally got around to implementing Non-breaking spaces in perlmonks nav bar as well, which is fine by me. Sometimes the word wrap produced odd results.

I'd still like to see the sections sorted alphabetically though. But some people like it the way it is, so that would be Yet Another User Setting, and I'm not sure if the effort is worth it. /msg me if you think it is.

[silent11]

From what I saw in the HTML it looks as though the non-breaking spaces were added, I'm confused as to why the <br> tags were also added. Why not let the menu conform to the user's screen size?
Replacing &nbsp; with white space should be plenty. If someone is really worried about links wraping on seperate lines why not just wrap each link with more than one word in <nobr> tags? Wouldn't that more accurately give the desired results as well as leave the job of formatting to the screen resolution?

-silent11

[Chady]

but I don't think CSS can override a <br> tag.

Have you tried?

br {
     display: none;
}

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[silent11]

Chady, that worked. Well, almost. Now I have one loooooong string of top nav that goes beyone the page border becuase some genius here replaced EVERY white space in the nav with a &nbsp;.

-silent11

[tcf22]

I heard some ramblings in the CB yesterday that tye made the changes the other day.

- Tom