Spaces get deleted
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In my current post, I have a couple of lines that are supposed to have two side-by-side “blocks”. I do this by using a “soft return” and then adding spaces to separate the two sides.
The spaces do not seem to stick. They get deleted when I click “Update”. Can anyone help?
(Actually, I posted a couple of queries early on and they too disappeared. So apologies if this is a redundant post.)
My blog is codebyline.wordpress.com
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You do not need to create a table to have 2 columns in posts or pages. To do that without creating a table see https://wpbtips.wordpress.com/2009/06/10/formatting-text-pt-1/
If you do want to create HTML tables see http://wpbtips.wordpress.com/2013/04/09/table-coding-for-wordpress-com-users/If you use the classic editor here Dashboard > Posts > Add New to create your posts what I provide below may be helpful.
In the classic editor, 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 Text or HTML editor, a single click of ENTER will give you a single-spaced line, and two clicks of ENTER will result in double spaced lines.
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/advanced-html/
If you are copying and pasting from a word processing document like Microsoft WORD note that the paste as WORD button was removed from the editor months ago. If you use the Paste as plain text button then a special cleanup process will run to remove any special formatting and HTML tags that may otherwise change your text. http://en.support.wordpress.com/visual-editor/#pasting-text Therefore you have to do you own formatting and spacing.
Whether or not you are copying and pasting go to > Dashboard > Settings > Writing and enable this setting:
Formatting
__ WordPress should correct invalidly nested XHTML automatically
“save changes”IMPORTANT NOTE: 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.
Also note raincoaster’s editing tip:
When you fix the spacing, you have to start at the top and work down. If you start at the bottom and work up, it always double spaces at least one line.re: image alignment
See here please > http://en.support.wordpress.com/visual-editor/#alignmentThe alignment icons in the WordPress editor are for aligning text; they are not for aligning images. They are used to achieve wrapping text around images on either the right or left hand side, or to display an image that’s centered without text on either side of it.
Align-left means position left, with the rest of the content wrapping around the right side of the image.
Align-right means position right, with the rest of the content wrapping around the left side of the image.
Align-center means position center, with no wrap-around (= the rest of the content below the image).
If the text beside the images does not occupy the same amount of space that the image beside it does then the text wrapping will continue and the images and text that follow will have a staggered appearance.
To prevent the staggered effect what you do is insert the following snippet of code into the Text (HTML) editor after each image/text pair:
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That’s a lot to take in, so thank you!
I know the shift-return trick, but now I understand the issue with multiple lines–and I assume the same is true with multiple spaces.Also, unexpectedly, you gave name to the two different editors: classic editor and blog editor. I have been trying to understand the differences btw the two, but couldn’t even figure out how to call either: One accessible from the WP Admin page, and one is supposed to offer the “improved posting experience”. But the two seem to have different features. If you can illuminate this point of confusion for me, that’ll be greatly appreciated.
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