Editing Text
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hello there,
I am trying to insert a picture and then put some wording to the right of it. I am able to do that, sort of, but not really to my liking. The problem i’m having is that it seems like the default spacing between one line of text and the text below it is way too large. For example, when I do a ‘Hard return’ after typing something it moves the following text down what would seem like 2 spaces instead of just the next line. It seems that if I space instead of hard return it fixes this issue except that when previewing the page the alignment is off. I would like to be able to adjust the spacing between one line of text to the next and that doesn’t seem possible. I’d appreciate any help with this issue.
thanks
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Hi there,
If your plan is Premium plan or Business plan, then you can use Custom CSS function. And through that function, you can adjust line-height between lines. To use custom CSS, please refer to support document below.
Custom CSS
https://en.support.wordpress.com/custom-css/Custom Design »How to Add Custom CSS
https://en.support.wordpress.com/custom-design/editing-css/And in order to adjust line-height in text area of your post, you can use this CSS code here:
p { line-height: 150%; }And you can change the number of percentage whatever you like.
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If you want to learn how to format and space your posts and pages in a wordpress.COM blog see: http://en.support.wordpress.com/advanced-html/ Specifically see here https://en.support.wordpress.com/advanced-html/#extra-line-breaks
You can also use the pre tag. See here https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/can-i-get-rid-of-double-word-spacing?replies=21#post-2512371
If you use the classic editor here Dashboard > Posts > Add New to create your posts what I provide below may be helpful.
In the classic editor, if you are working in the Visual editor, to get single spacing between paragraphs hold the SHIFT key down and simultaneously click ENTER at the end of the paragraph. If you are working in the Text or HTML editor, a single click of ENTER will give you a single-spaced line, and two clicks of ENTER will result in double spaced lines.
Whether or not you are copying and pasting go to > Dashboard > Settings > Writing and enable this setting:
Formatting
__ WordPress should correct invalidly nested XHTML automatically
“save changes”IMPORTANT NOTE: When you create a new post, always make sure the Format tool is set to Paragraph before you start typing. It’s in the Visual editor Row 2 first position “style”. See the illustration here http://en.support.wordpress.com/visual-editor/#row-2 If you forget to do that then edit the post, highlight all in the Visual editor, select Paragraph from the Format tool, switch editor to Text then switch back to Visual and click Update.
re: image alignment
No upgrade required.
Align-left means position left, with the rest of the content wrapping around the right side of the image.
Align-right means position right, with the rest of the content wrapping around the left side of the image.
Align-center means position center, with no wrap-around (= the rest of the content below the image).
If the text beside the images does not occupy the same amount of space that the image beside it does then the text wrapping will continue and the images and text that follow will have a staggered appearance.
To prevent the staggered effect what you do is insert the following snippet of code into the Text (HTML) editor after each image/text pair:
<div style="clear:both;"></div>
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