<br> is useless

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  redthedead · Member · Feb 9, 2008 at 10:33 pm

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  I have been having a problem with posting WordPress blogs. The first time I posted a WP blog it didn’t recognize any carriage returns after line has been returned for the first time. My solution was to access the code of the entry and then use <br> to return to the next line; even that isn’t working on my more recent post. Any help would be appreciated.

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  thesacredpath · Member · Feb 10, 2008 at 2:24 am

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  If you are using Safari, it isn’t quite compatible with the TinyMCE visual editor wordpress uses. Try Firefox.

  If you aren’t using Safari, try using <p>&nbsp;</p> between paragraphs, but it may be stripped as well. The editor seems quite borked lately.

  The real solution: Use one of the offline blog editors listed here: http://bloggingtips.tumblr.com/post/23496063

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  redthedead · Member · Feb 11, 2008 at 1:21 pm

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  That works, but perhaps too well. It leaves me with at least three carriage returns per division of paragraph — and, yes, I am using Firefox.

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  isadora · Member · Feb 11, 2008 at 6:04 pm

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  the br tag is a simple line break, it won’t add any extra space. Use two for a double carriage return, but you’d better use the correct xhtml syntax:
  <br />

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  disembedded · Member · Feb 11, 2008 at 6:14 pm

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  @ isadora,

  Right.

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  redthedead · Member · Feb 11, 2008 at 7:33 pm

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  Thanks a lot. much appreciated