How come when I edit out the extra double spacing in HTML, the changes automatically revert back to their old way?

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  pennapril · Member · Feb 8, 2021 at 12:51 am

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  I am trying to get rid of double spacing on my WordPress post and when I delete the extra spaces on HTML view, the double spaces automatically come right back, making all my edits disappear. How do I get the changes I make to HTML to stay the way that I put them without them automatically changing back?

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  staff-totoro · Staff · Feb 8, 2021 at 1:20 am

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  Hi there,

  Which site is this for? I see you have a few on your account. Can you tell me a bit more about what you are trying to set up? Are you writing poetry or some other prose that requires specific text formatting?

  Thanks for the additional info!

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  pennapril · Member · Feb 8, 2021 at 1:25 am

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  Yes, it’s poetry and I need to remove the double spacing. I need to be able to edit the HTML to do that. Here’s an example of a page that is giving me this problem: https://diymfa976272932.wordpress.com/three-poems-by-kat-coolahan/

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  fstat · Staff · Feb 8, 2021 at 8:52 am

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  Hi there,

  This is happening because you used the Paragraph block for each line. If you want to write poetry it’s best to use the Verse block:

  https://wordpress.com/support/wordpress-editor/blocks/verse-block/