Making text a link in a post adds extra carridge returns

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  tracyjfox · Member · Nov 28, 2012 at 5:22 pm

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  Hi

  I may well be doing something wrong but when I make text a link in a post, carridge returns are automatically inserted before and after the linked text. Apologies if I haven’t explained this very well.

  So instead of looking like this with the words previous post as the link

  ‘As I said in a previous post, I recently spent the day’

  it comes out like this

  ‘As I said in a
  previous post,
  I recently spent the day’

  The weird thing is that if you preview the post it looks fine but as soon as you publish it changes to the second formatting style.

  I have tried creating the link by copying and pasting the full link, selecting the post when creating the link and using the short link and it still happens.

  Thanks in advance to anyone who can help.

  Tracy

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

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  timethief · Member · Nov 28, 2012 at 5:24 pm

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  Will you please post an link to a page or post that displays an example of this so we can examine it?

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  tracyjfox · Member · Nov 28, 2012 at 5:27 pm

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  Hi timethief

  Because it look so awful I didn’t go ahead with the link and removed it.

  This is the link to how it looks now.

  http://tracygracedesigns.com/

  Do you want me to edit the post and put the link back in?

  Thanks

  Tracy

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  timethief · Member · Nov 28, 2012 at 5:30 pm

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  Yes please.

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  tracyjfox · Member · Nov 28, 2012 at 5:32 pm

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  Hi

  Have just done it.

  Tracy

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  timethief · Member · Nov 28, 2012 at 5:34 pm

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  Please provide a link to the post. The most recent one does not have any links in the body text.

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  tracyjfox · Member · Nov 28, 2012 at 5:36 pm

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  Sorry timethief, it is the same post.

  http://tracygracedesigns.com/

  Tracy

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  1tess · Moderator Emeritus · Nov 28, 2012 at 5:39 pm

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  The link shows correctly when the post is viewed by itself:
  http://tracygracedesigns.com/2012/11/28/sharon-and-lous-fabulous-spirals/
  But not on the home page where the line breaks oddly.

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  timethief · Member · Nov 28, 2012 at 5:40 pm

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  Thanks Tess. I tagged this for Staff assistance.

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  1tess · Moderator Emeritus · Nov 28, 2012 at 5:43 pm

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  Good. There is an older post on the front page with a properly functioning link. Source code looks the same in each… Strange.

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  tracyjfox · Member · Nov 28, 2012 at 5:43 pm

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  Thank ladies.

  Do I wait now for staff to respond or do I need to do something?

  Tracy

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  1tess · Moderator Emeritus · Nov 28, 2012 at 5:44 pm

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  Just leave it there and wait. You can subscribe to this topic so you’ll know when someone responds.

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  tracyjfox · Member · Nov 28, 2012 at 5:48 pm

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  Thank you Tess. As always the help in the forum is much appreciated.

  Apologies if I didn’t post the correct link.

  Tracy

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  tracyjfox · Member · Nov 28, 2012 at 5:51 pm

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  I forgot to add that when I first started the blog this didn’t happen. I have exprienced this problem for a while now though but because I didn’t know how to fix it I just removed the link as I didn’t like how it formatted it.

  Tracy

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  kathrynwp · Staff · Nov 30, 2012 at 8:21 pm

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  I found the source of the problem. That post was set to use the Image post format, instead of Standard.

  I changed the format back to Standard and the problem went away.

  More about post formats.