Spacing I'm using in posts isn't working & is all blocked together, how to fix?

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  rawmissoula · Member · Apr 16, 2014 at 4:10 pm

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  My blog postings aren’t displaying the spacing in-between paragraphs that I am typing in when writing the post, so everything is showing up as solid block rather than subjects and recipe items spaced individually.
  Even when I go in to edit and try altering it that way, it doesn’t work. While writing the post it shows spacing in-between paragraphs and recipe items, but once posted it’s in block format. If you could help me, it would be greatly appreciated. Recipes and text are hard to follow when all smushed together.

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  jeremeylduvall · Member · Apr 19, 2014 at 12:23 pm

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  Hi there!

  I’m looking at your latest post seen here:

  http://rawmissoula.wordpress.com/2014/04/16/chai-chia-pudding/

  Can you let me know a bit more about how you’re creating your posts? When I view your post in the Text Editor, I see quite a bit of HTML tags. For example, here are the first few lines under the recipe section:

  <div style="color: #222222;">1/4 cup chia seeds</div>
  <div style="color: #222222;">1 cup fresh made almond milk</div>
  <div style="color: #222222;">1 tablesoon agave</div>

  Those extra div tags are likely causing the issue. Instead, it should look like this:

  1/4 cup chia seeds
  1 cup fresh made almond milk
  1 tablesoon agave

  Notice how those div tags have an opening and a closing tag on each line? You’ll need to remove the tags from each side of the line in order to fix the issue. I’m happy to go back in and adjust it for you to demonstrate what I’m referring to.

  These extra tags typically occur if you’re copying and pasting the content from another source like Microsoft Word.

  Let me know a bit more about how you’re creating the post, and I can provide some recommendations moving forward! For now, if you remove the extra div tags, the spacing should work correctly!

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  rawmissoula · Member · Apr 19, 2014 at 2:23 pm

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  Oh. Okay. That’s good to know. I have definitely cut and pasted a few postings. However, I feel strongly that I have had this same issue when just writing a post directly in wordpress as well. I will start with this information and make sure that all of my future posts are created solely in wordpress and see if the issue corrects itself. Thank you for your time and help in the matter!

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  jeremeylduvall · Member · Apr 19, 2014 at 2:38 pm

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  Not a problem! Yes, if you have this issue again after editing directly in the WordPress.com editor, please let me know. Also, for the spacing to work correctly, it helps to work in the Visual Editor. The Text Editor automatically single-spaces your post.

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  rawmissoula · Member · Apr 20, 2014 at 1:09 pm

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  Good to know! Thank you.

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  jeremeylduvall · Member · Apr 21, 2014 at 4:07 pm

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  No problem! Happy to help.