this issue has raised its head again on the manual of style page. And it still bugs me that we're mixing up presentation with semantics. recap: the curent situation is this: == heading == Text: there will be little space between this and the heading == heading == Text following a blank line. There will be a gap between this and the heading So a quick question: 1. under what circumstances do we *definitely* need space between a heading an the following content? and 2. under what circumstances do we *definitely NOT*? The only one I can remember is that in tables (countries, elements, etc), we want *no* space. any others? because if not, we can resolve this problem with CSS: h1 , h2 etc { usual space } table h1 , table h2 etc { no space }