Line Spacing in posts

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  fishsaucetoketchup · Member · Mar 17, 2017 at 12:06 am

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  Hi there.

  I’m trying to write song lyrics in my posts and to do that, I need to create single spaced line breaks in order to keep the verses together. How can I accomplish this?

  I’ve tried using the code
  after each line but that didn’t seem to do it.

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  pauloeaquino · Staff · Mar 17, 2017 at 12:13 am

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  Hi, this is something confused me for a while too.

  Instead of hitting “enter” for a line break have you tried “shift + enter”?

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  fishsaucetoketchup · Member · Mar 17, 2017 at 12:41 am

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  Hi Paul, thanks for the response.

  I have tried that as well and it still shows up as double spaced

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  timethief · Member · Mar 17, 2017 at 2:18 am

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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.