Help with HTML

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I am doing a solo and the solo provided needs the ad creative in html form.
I created it in a wordpress editor and gave it to them, but it's showing up all
together as one paragraph.

The hyperlinks, font sizes and colors are all correct but not the paragraph formatting. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to do the html so it looks correct?

Thank you
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  • Have you taken a look at the source code to see if the formatting has all the necessary code? Sounds like the <p></p> tags may be missing...
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    • Study the visual editor in Wordpress. Its a minor formatting issue so i agree with the above poster in that you are not breaking your paragraphs.
  • I think regervin is correct. In WordPress, even in the plain text view, it doesn't show you all of the html markup.
  • In WordPress the formatting of posts and pages is controlled by the theme you use. Many times you need to add custom "Inline CSS" code to get exactly the Look & Feel you want. Of course you do this in the WordPress editor's "Text" view.

    You can buy many good books on CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) and CSS is easy to use. For example, O'Reilly has good paperbacks at reasonable prices. Unlike 'real programing' the CSS tags read like English, so it's just "markup", not programming, like PHP for WordPress.

    It's also easy to search online for the correct CSS syntax, with examples. Just use a search like: "inline css paragraph styles".

    Here's an example of an HTML paragraph tag with Inline CSS added:
    Code:
    <p style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size:16px; color: #ff0000; font-weight: bold; margin: 10px 0 15px 0;">In here goes the text</p>
    The above creates a paragraph in a 16 px, bold, Verdana typeface of pure red color with margins of Top 10px, Right zero px, bottom 15px and left zero px.

    You can do even more of course, like italics, hyperlinks, borders (by using "Divs") and much more. With the right WordPress plugin, you can even create tables, just like in traditional pure HTML.

    To my mind any WordPress user who wants to get real control of pages and posts needs to learn basic Inline CSS.

    Of course you COULD do extensive hacking of your theme to cut way down on the amount of Inline CSS you need - but that takes a bit more expertise.

    Hope this helps...
    _jim coe
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    Help with HTML

    I am doing a solo and the solo provided needs the ad creative in html form. I created it in a wordpress editor and gave it to them, but it's showing up all together as one paragraph.