how to i stop <h1></h1> adding a link break before and after its use?

It is a Heading. It is meant to stand alone.

This is not a CSS question.

Using <H1> for Seo (search engine optimisation) reasons is a waste of time as is most SEO voodoo.

http://www.w3.org/TR/html-markup/h1.html

What stone said is correct. I just want to point out that using an H1 for anything other than it's intended purpose is a black hat SEO trick. The bots that are out there are smart enough to tell. It will get you black-listed.

The best thing to do for SEO is concentrate on content per page, and use your markup in a semantically correct way.

Heading tags are usually treated as block elements and so are followed by a new line by default. This can be overridden by including a style rule to make them inline:

h1

{

display:inline;

}

If the heading's surrounded by other block elements, you may need to set their style to inline also.

http://www.aptana.com/reference/html/api/CSS.eleme...

Copy what they have into your css... start making changes...

Example.... change font to smaller number

change padding... to smaller number, or maybe try "0px"

You can style anything that you want...

But if you're posting garbage, google will rate you poorly.... in spite of your h1 tag.

rather than using "black hat", try researching your subject... and then learning how to write intelligibly.

it is a heading tag on html...