Padding formatting problem

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  cloudrodeo · Member · Mar 19, 2013 at 10:27 pm

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  Hi, we’re in the middle of creating an online lit mag. We host a lot of poetry with strange margins. What I’ve noticed is that when using padding in the text editor, the poetry shows different line breaks on different browsers. Example:

  http://cloudrodeo.org/issues/issue-1/portia-elan/

  Another example:

  http://cloudrodeo.org/issues/issue-1/howie-good/

  Is there any way around this? I’d like to preserve the original line breaks so that the poem views consistently on different screens/browsers.

  Thanks so much.
  -N

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  staff-blorbo · Staff · Mar 19, 2013 at 10:32 pm

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  That’s a bit of a tough one. Spacing and handling of whitespace is still largely unstandardized amongst the major browsers.

  We do have a few tips at http://en.support.wordpress.com/writing-and-formatting-poetry/ which will translate across to most browsers.