Multiple line breaks

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  fairest · Member · Apr 13, 2006 at 5:10 pm

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  I am having problems getting more line breaks, no matter what I do. I’ve tried entering the <br><br> tag in the HTML editor, but this doesn’t work. Also hitting return 5 times in the rich editor doesn’t work, it bring it back to one line break. I need five or six lines break between each sentence, and I’m having a hard time making this happen. Any help would be appreciated.

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  cornell · Member · Apr 13, 2006 at 5:26 pm

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  I don’t know the answer (I’m sorry!) but can I just ask why you want five or six lines between each sentence?

  Thanks!

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  drmike · Member · Apr 13, 2006 at 6:17 pm

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  Turn off the rich text editor. TinyMCE is probably stripping it out on you. You may also want to be using <br /> instead of <br>. IIRC, HTML 4.01 prefers the trailing ‘/’ mark.

  Good luck,
  -drmike

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  fairest · Member · Apr 13, 2006 at 7:10 pm

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  drmike I’ve been trying that and I’ll keep trying. It wasn’t something I was expected to be difficult on wp, but I’m liking wp in general.

  cornell — good question!

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  drmike · Member · Apr 13, 2006 at 7:57 pm

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  Which method are you trying? I suggested two things. :)

  Can we see an example of what you are doing?

  Thanks,
  -drmike

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  fairest · Member · Apr 13, 2006 at 8:16 pm

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  well, for example, when I do this

  I am trying

  To skip lines

  when I either 1) turn off the Rich Text Editor or 2) hit the HTML icon while in the RTE it doesn’t work. What it in fact does (if I do #2) is erase the
  tags after I hit save.

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  fairest · Member · Apr 13, 2006 at 8:17 pm

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  damm the post got rid of my html… what I put was
  five times.

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  fairest · Member · Apr 13, 2006 at 8:18 pm

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  I’m trying to put < b r / >

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  podz · Member · Apr 13, 2006 at 9:22 pm

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  If you use
  <br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
  WP will strip the additional <br /> back to one.

  Add a non-break space. WP then thinks there is content so allows the spacing:

  &nbsp;<br />
&nbsp;<br />
&nbsp;<br />
&nbsp;<br />
&nbsp;<br />
&nbsp;<br />
  will make a long gap.

  (And I bet this does not show up correctly first time…)
  wow.. it did! :)

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  fairest · Member · Apr 14, 2006 at 7:20 pm

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  podz, you rock, that works. And as it often happens, I sorta figured it out on my own before looking back here, but thanks. the miracles of &n b s p are plentiful.

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  kitanaor · Member · Jun 17, 2006 at 1:26 pm

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  THANK YOU!!! I was tearing out my hair looking for breaks that would not get stripped out. I needed them between each section of an entry.

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  kaivata · Member · Aug 2, 2006 at 11:48 am

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  I am having the same issue…. I can’t for the life of me get a line break to work, no matter what combination of <p> <br> <br /> &nbsp; etc. I try to use.

  I am trying to do this on a page, rather than a post.

  drmike: you mentioned turning of the editor? Can you advise how to do this?

  Thanks.

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  cornell · Member · Aug 2, 2006 at 11:54 am

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  Go to your dashboard -> Users -> Your Profile.

  Scroll down and at the bottom there is a tickbox that says “use the visual rich editor when writing”. Untick it and save.

  HTH

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