hard returns aren't saving

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    marthaborst1 · Member ·

    I like to put extra ‘hard-returns’ between paragraphs to break up thoughts. Was using Shift+[enter] to hard-return, but when previewing page, none of the hard returns are saving. all the paragraphs are right on top of each other. I even tried adding an extra line in html in text view & it still made no difference
    How do I make extra space between paragraphs – i.e hard-returns – STAY PUT once its previewed/published?
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    drunkentennis · Member ·

    Good day,

    Hard-return means double spacing, right?

    I have tested out when writing a blog post.

    Double spacing is done by hitting ‘Enter/Return’ key.
    Single spacing is done by hitting ‘Shift + Enter/Return’ key.

    Please give the above keys a try.

    Cheers,
    Win

  • kokkieh · Staff ·

    Hi there,

    Hard Return is a character used in word processing software that forces the cursor into a new line even if you haven’t reached the end of a line yet. It’s an actual character, albeit invisible, that’s added to your document.

    The HTML code websites are written in doesn’t use that character, but instead creates a p-tag (p for “paragraph”) to denote where a break should be when you press Return.

    To have a space between your paragraphs, just press Return on its own. In the HTML of the published post that will result in the paragraphs being wrapped in p-tags, and those tags are styled by default to leave an empty space above it, appearing as a blank line in your post.

    Shift-return enters a line break in HTML, not a paragraph break. In HTML that is represented by

    </br>

    and will cause the text after that tag to appear in the next line directly underneath the first.

    If you want to add multiple blank lines between paragraphs, you need to use what’s called a non-breaking space HTML entity:

    https://en.support.wordpress.com/advanced-html/#extra-line-breaks

    Pressing Return multiple times will not add blank lines, just empty p-tags, and those are stripped out automatically when the post updates/saves.

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    marthaborst1 · Member ·

    Kokkieh Happiness engineer Thank you for the link for non-breaking space HTML –
    it was extremely helpful! thanks everyone!! truly appreciate the quick answers from all!

  • kokkieh · Staff ·

    Happy to help :)

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