Breaks disappearing

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  madebyhannah · Member · Sep 1, 2011 at 3:55 pm

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  Hi!

  I am having trouble getting breaks (return/
  ) to show up on one of my pages. Every time I save/update the page, the breaks disappear and my images get all jumbled up. I have tried in both visual and html mode, but nothing works. I suspect it is the images that are causing the problem, but I don’t know how to fix it. For now I have added <hr /> tags, which sort of help a little, but it still completely ignores my
  tags.
  I noticed that a lot of people have mentioned similar problems, but I have not found a solution to the problem.
  According to the support site,
  tags are allowed, so I don’t understand why they disappear???
  Does anyone have an answer?

  Here’s the link to my page: http://madebyhannah.wordpress.com/tutorials/

  Thanks a lot!

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  madebyhannah · Member · Sep 1, 2011 at 3:58 pm

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  In my previous message I had put in some break tags and even those disappeared (note the empty spaces), so obviously there is a problem with break tags all around. Should it perhaps be removed from the “accepted tags” page?

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  madebyhannah · Member · Sep 1, 2011 at 4:28 pm

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  Update:

  I found a temporary solution to my problem using div tags.

  I used <!– (<div align=”center”>) –> and then i left-aligned header, image and paragraph</div>

  I would still appreciate help with the break problem though.

  Thanks!

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  timethief · Member · Sep 1, 2011 at 5:31 pm

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  You will get double spacing between paragraphs in every theme here of which I’m aware. Hold shift and press enter which will put in a standard break (no blank line). In graphic design/page layout, it is called a soft return.

  1. To get standard line spacing on paragraphs (blank line between paragraphs) select all the text in the post, click on the “format” pulldown at the left end of the lower row of icons and select paragraph.

  2. If you want a standard paragraph break, at the end of a paragraph, press return/enter.

  3. If you want no blank line, hold down shift and then press return/enter.

  Space between lines. > http://wpbtips.wordpress.com/category/space-betweeen-lines/
  Space between paragraphs > http://wpbtips.wordpress.com/category/space-between-paragraphs/
  Formatting poetry http://en.support.wordpress.com/writing-and-formatting-poetry/

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  timethief · Member · Sep 1, 2011 at 5:36 pm

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  note the space in the following code as it is important:
  <br />

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  madebyhannah · Member · Sep 2, 2011 at 11:29 pm

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  Thank you!

  I already had my text formatted as paragraphs, so that didn’t take care of the problem, and the “shift/return” only works once, and I wanted additional spacing.
  I tried the pre tag, but that didn’t seem to work very well either.

  What worked best was adding style to the paragraph, so I ended up defining the height of each paragraph.

  Thanks a lot for your help!

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  timethief · Member · Sep 3, 2011 at 12:53 am

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  You’re welcome and best wishes with your blog. :)