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  finktr0n · Member · Jan 30, 2012 at 4:54 am

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  I’ve read past problems on the customization blog regarding disappearing page breaks and paragraph spaces, and I am encountering some of these same problems. The solutions posted in old responses like <h ref=”https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/multiple-line-breaks?replies=13″>this one just haven’t worked for me and I’ve been through my html and CSS both repeatedly. I am new to this so I expect it to be difficult and to make mistakes, but it is beyond frustrating knowing that WordPress’ proprietary CSS is probably filling in gaps where I haven’t coded my own CSS and, as a result, overriding my page design.

  Here’s an illustrative example of something I was trying to code that keeps coming out funny:

  <p align=”center”>
  <span style=”font-family:impact;font-size:x-large;”>INTRODUCTION</span>
  <hr width=”100%” />
  <span style=”font-size:medium;”>”We have, then, good evidence that Mike Fink’s body lay a-mouldering in the grave. His soul–or, one hopes, a reasonable facsimile–went marching on in the many narratives about him.”</span>
  </p>

  I have indent set to 40px in my CSS but otherwise I don’t have any wonky margins or padding-bottom going on. No matter what I do, the first line of text shows up severely indented (or else right aligned), the second line appears to be aligned to the left, and the final line is properly centered. Tooling around with my html, I added indent:0 to the <span> tag and while it changed things, the formatting was still off. I’ve been editing the html more and more, and at this point the editor doesn’t even seem to recognize some of the <span> tags I’ve been messing with.
  and <p> haven’t worked from the start and that’s been the major problem I’ve faced so far. Please please please help, I don’t want to give up on pretty page layout and blogging before I even start.

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  thesacredpath · Member · Jan 30, 2012 at 5:19 am

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  Don’t use “align=”center” instead use the inline CSS such as:

  <p style="text-align:center;">

  Font sizes like x-large and medium would have to be defined in the CSS, and very, very few designers use those anymore. That are gathering dust on the shelves of antiquity.

  For “introduction” I would suggest using something like h2 or h3 as those play much better with the search engines and to them designate something of importance. x-large they don’t see as having any significance.

  Can you point to an example on your site for us to look at?