As anyone experienced a problem w/ line breaks in WP

sblackburn · 12-05-2008, 04:41 PM

Hi - has anyone else experienced a problem with Word Press where it ignores line breaks?

I am running into this issue on one of my sites and can't determine why.

The site I am seeing this on is Real Estate Success Link

Thanks in advance for any tips

P.S. I don't have any editing plugins installed

Gail Sober · 12-05-2008, 05:49 PM

Try pasting it in html mode instead wysiwyg, then flip to wysiwyg to add links or whatever.

koolphoto · 12-05-2008, 08:13 PM

check the style sheet and the css code. You could have a conflict with your html.

YellowDot Software · 12-05-2008, 08:19 PM

I checked your css, you have a few places where youre setting margin:0 and padding:0 on your <p> tags

Which is actually good practice, but wordpress uses p tags for line breaks.

So find all the places you're zeroing margins and padding on your p tags and you'll be fine! The p tags are all properly inserted on your blog front page, you're just not rendering the margins

SteveJohnson · 12-05-2008, 08:35 PM

Get and use Firefox, install Firebug.

Look at your source code, you'll find that <p> tags have no styling at all.

This is an issue with your theme, not with WordPress.

If all you want is some separation between paragraphs, enter this into your stylesheet:

.entry p {margin-bottom: 5px;}

Save and check your site; increase/decrease the 5 according to taste.

Jared Alberghini · 12-05-2008, 08:36 PM

Hold the shift key down when hitting the enter key in your WP posts... this will fix it...

- Jared

sblackburn · 12-06-2008, 02:56 AM

Thanks everyone for the suggestions -- I will give them a try in the morning.

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