problem creating space between posting and widgets

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  alisonclement · Member · Nov 30, 2011 at 4:47 am

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  Sometimes my posts run right into the widgets. Most of the time, there are a few spaces between where the post ends and the widget row begins, but sometimes, randomly, the widget row begins on the very next line, as if it’s another line of text. I can’t figure out how to control this. Any ideas? You can see an example of this on my latest blog post, if you feel like looking.

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  thesacredpath · Member · Nov 30, 2011 at 5:07 am

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  Are you talking about the sharing buttons below the posts? That typically happens when there is either some malformed HTML or a missing ending HTML tag somewhere in the post.

  Go to settings > writing and select “WordPress should correct invalidly nested XHTML automatically” and then click “save changes.”

  Now, open a post with this problem in the editor, make one minor change such as adding and then deleting a space, and then click “update post.” Check your blog and if it is back to normal, you are golden (you might have to force refresh the blog page).

  That change in settings should keep this from happening in the future.

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  panaghiotisadam · Member · Nov 30, 2011 at 5:40 am

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  This can also happen if the last section of the post has been incorrectly formatted as a div instead of a paragraph (paragraphs have space below them by default while divs don’t), and that’s the case in your latest post. Highlight all the poem in the Visual editor and select Paragraph from the Format tool (row 2 tool 1).

  To create a simple line break instead of a paragraph break after each line of a poem, press shift return instead of return.

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  alisonclement · Member · Nov 30, 2011 at 6:30 am

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  Thank you for your quick replies, but so far I haven’t managed to fix my problem. Sacred Path, I did change the settings (and was glad to learn more about settings, thank you) but the problem persisted. Panaghiotisadam, maybe it’s just too late at night, but I cannot for the life of me find the format tool that will lead me to Paragraph. I’m on the edit page and in visual edit……

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  thesacredpath · Member · Nov 30, 2011 at 6:33 am

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  It’s on row 2 of the visual editor toolbars. See this support document which explains how to get the second row of icons to appear and identified all the different buttons.