keeping line breaks in poetry?

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  hblume32336 · Member · Apr 12, 2017 at 3:47 am

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  Is it possible to retain line brakes, stanzas, text positioning
  when writing poetry? no matter what size a reader views the text.

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  fstat · Staff · Apr 12, 2017 at 11:02 am

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  Hi there,

  You can use the HTML editor to control line breaks and indentation for your poems. You can read more here:
  https://en.support.wordpress.com/advanced-html/

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  hblume32336 · Member · Apr 13, 2017 at 3:02 pm

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  Thanks. I’m not code literate but will give it a try.

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  hblume32336 · Member · Apr 13, 2017 at 3:52 pm

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  Hello again; It worked!
  BUT there is a gray box around each paragraph with a drop shadow. Kind of like the effect but would like to see it without; would also like to know how to replicate it in code for future entries. For now I’d like to lose it.

  https://loosendsdotme.wordpress.com/2017/04/11/at-the-passover-table-speechless/?preview_id=5148&preview_nonce=0c44aaf268&post_format=standard&_thumbnail_id=-1&preview=true

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  fstat · Staff · Apr 13, 2017 at 4:13 pm

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  Awesome!

  To hide the gray boxes remove the

   and 

  tags at the beginning and at the end of each paragraph.

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  fstat · Staff · Apr 13, 2017 at 4:15 pm

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  Whoops! Here’s what I wanted to say:

  To hide the gray boxes remove the <pre> and </pre> tags at the beginning and at the end of each paragraph.

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  hblume32336 · Member · Apr 13, 2017 at 5:17 pm

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  But if I did that I’d lose the preserve indents & spacing; they are
  the directions I got from the Advanced HTHL support page.

  Directions: to force the editor to preserve indents and spacing use the

   tag. 
  
  It worked but also got the gray boxes.

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  hblume32336 · Member · Apr 13, 2017 at 5:19 pm

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  Directions: to force the editor to preserve indents and spacing use the

  tag.

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  fstat · Staff · Apr 13, 2017 at 5:47 pm

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  You can remove the gray boxes with some CSS code. To use CSS code on your site you must have the Custom CSS upgrade which is a feature of the WordPress.com Premium and Business plans.

  Here’s the code:

  pre{
  	background: white;
  }

  and the instructions on where to put it:
  https://en.support.wordpress.com/custom-design/editing-css/

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  hblume32336 · Member · Apr 13, 2017 at 8:29 pm

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  have customCSS upgrade — giving it a go

  thanks