Paragraph Breaks Disappear
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The paragraph breaks on a page of my website disappear mysteriously after I edit and update the page. Please take a look at this sample page: http://jeromemandel.wordpress.com/books-version-two/
The text “Read an excerpt” at the end of the first paragraph should be on a line by itself. I’ve edited it countless times in both Visual and Text editor windows but the paragraph break disappears when I hit update.
This same phenomenon also happens intermittently with other paragraphs on this page.
Can someone please tell me how can I fix this?
thanks!
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We Volunteers cannot view private blogs.
Blog editors and word processors are not the same and do not work the same way. The web standard is one blank line only, so you cannot add more blank lines by pressing return repeatedly like you would do with a typewriter or in a word processing application. If you want to learn how to format and space your posts and pages see:
http://en.support.wordpress.com/writing-and-formatting-poetry/If you are working in the Visual editor, to get single spacing between paragraphs hold the SHIFT key down and simultaneously click ENTER at the end of the paragraph.
If you are working in the HTML (Text) editor, a single click of ENTER will give you a single-spaced line, and two clicks of ENTER will result in double spaced lines. http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2011/09/13/wordpress-formatting-and-spacing/
P.S. When you create a new post, always make sure the Format tool is set to Paragraph before you start typing. It’s in the Visual editor Row 2 first position “style”. See the illustration here http://en.support.wordpress.com/visual-editor/#row-2 If you forget to do that then edit the post, highlight all in the Visual editor, select Paragraph from the Format tool, switch editor to Text then switch back to Visual and click Update.
If you are copying an pasting content for example form Microsoft Word then know that Microsoft Word is a word processing program that’s not compliant with web standards. The result of copy and pasting from Microsoft Word into the Tiny MCE editor in WordPress blogs can be unexpected, and contain a lot of formatting code that’s not compliant unless you know how to use the built-in features in the Visual editor for using Word cleanly. http://en.support.wordpress.com/visual-editor/#pasting-text
Note you need to click the kitchen sink icon #15 at the end of Row 1 to have Row 2 appear. http://en.support.wordpress.com/visual-editor/#row-1
Go here and enable this > Settings > Writing
Formatting
_ WordPress should correct invalidly nested XHTML automatically
“save changes”I recommend using Windows Live Writer for posting to your blog > http://en.support.wordpress.com/xml-rpc/windows-live-writer/
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I apologize, I forgot I set this site to private. I’ve changed that to make it public.
I’m not trying to enter blank lines. I just want to divide the text into paragraphs (i.e. by entering two returns after the text in the HTML editor or one return in the Visual editor)
I notice that when I hit update the format tool switches off of “paragraph” all by itself.
This text is in a table. Could that have anything to do with it?
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In addition, in response to other suggestions posted by Time Thief:
I typed the text by hand and did not import from Word.
My Settings for Writing are as suggested.
I can’t use Windows Live Writer because I’m on a Mac.I would love to know why by paragraph breaks won’t hold.
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Because word processors and blogging software do not work the same. Two returns does not, as you have seen, create a paragraph break. Use br tags. If you want an offline blog editor, try Ecto.
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I know that about word processors and blogging software. But I should be able to break up a block of text into paragraphs. I can do it on other pages — just not in the text within the table on the page I referenced.
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You could use paragraph tags:
<p>FIRST PARAGRAPH HERE</p> <p>SECOND PARAGRAPH HERE</p>But actually you don’t need a table to display a couple of images with text next to them. All you need is this after each image/text pair (to prevent unwanted text-wrap):
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Paragraph tags didn’t work either.
But the code justpi provided to prevent unwanted text wrap did the trick! And that was the whole reason I had placed the content in tables — to prevent the unwanted text wrap. This will make the page soooo much easier to prepare.
thank you, thank you, justpi!!
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This doesn’t usually happen with paragraph tags but switching from text to visual editor can sometimes cause unexpected changes to your code.
- Some html entities (fractions for example) won’t appear unless you switch to the visual editor.
- Centered images will cause the software to insert paragraph style ‘align-center’ if you switch from text to visual and back again.
- Links to background images can disappear.
- Code for round corner borders will disappear.
- There are other examples of problems that occur when switching from one editor to the other, but those came to mind. I’d advise that you stick to one editor or the other if possible.
At any rate, it looks like the p tags are functioning properly now.
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By the way:
There are offline editors for Macs
http://en.support.wordpress.com/xml-rpc/#mac
I use Macs but have not tried any of them. None of them will make tables but other than that I have no experience with using them. -
Thanks for the info 1tess. However, I’ve removed the text from the tables, so I think that’s why the p tags are now functioning properly.
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justpi, you are my HERO!!! I just spent two hours trolling FAQ’s, tutorials and forums and nothing worked. Your paragraph break code did the trick and I am so very grateful!!!!
I had a row of four pictures side-by-side, and I wanted to add a single picture beneath them (centered). Every time I inserted the new picture, it stuck it at the end of the row and increased the width of the page (so you’d have to scroll to the right to see it – UGH!!).
I think I’ll get <div style=”clear: both;”></div> tattooed on my arm so I’ll never lose track of it!! :D
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