How to insert a blank line in restructured text?

Question

I'm drafting a document using Sphinx 1.1.3. When I insert two tables one after another, those tables show up too close in HTML, so I want to insert a blank line between them. How do I do that?

Answer 1

You can use vertical bars at the beginning of lines to produce blank lines in the output. Like this:

Heading
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|
|

Paragraph with text.

Answer 2

You have two possible solutions:

1. Use @mzjn's comment

2. Create a custom CSS stylesheet that will define padding beneath a table (or above, or both).