New lines disappearing

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    smallivy · Member ·

    I’ve noticed I’ll see spaces in the edited view, but they disappear in the post unless I put <p> </p> where I want the new line. Can you fix this bug?

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    designsimply · Member ·

    I’m not sure why it’s like that on the web, but it’s very common to remove extra spacing. That alone is not a bug.

    If you are coping content from another source and that source is using div tags instead of p tags, that can result in all of the content collapsing into one paragraph until you add p tags like you mentioned. In that case, what is happening is that there is a conflict in what you are pasting compared to how the WordPress.com editor understands the content. To get around that issue, you can try using the “paste as text” button in the editor when you add content and that might help depending on what the original content you are pasting looks like and what its underlying formatting is.
    https://en.support.wordpress.com/visual-editor/#pasting-text

    Another alternative could be to try using an offline editor, which I’ve heard some people with formatting issues really like using because some of them work a bit more like Word or other desktop apps they are used to using.
    https://en.support.wordpress.com/xml-rpc/

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