Unnecessary line-height span tags suddenly appearing in my code
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When editing text in the visual editor, then switching to text, I frequently see something like this:
<span style=”font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em;”>
It seems to occur when using backspace or enter to create or delete paragraphs (i.e., if this was regular HTML, it would be the same as adding or deleting <p> tags).
I find this behavior in all of the blogs I manage, both on wordpress.com and self-hosted. No matter what the formatting of the page, the line-height is always 1.5em when this happens.
I don’t like to see unnecessary code, and I always remove these span tags when I see them. Why are they there? How can I prevent this from happening?
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You need to be cautious and use the correct approach when copying and pasting from any document created in a word processor.
For example 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. Row 2 icon 6 (see also icon 5)
http://en.support.wordpress.com/visual-editor/#pasting-textGo 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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Sometimes yes, sometimes, no.
Often I will put text in Notepad before pasting into WP to be sure of removing formatting. Often I will use the paste-as-text option.
The issue occurs occasionally in all of the above situations. It seems to have something to do with a particular sequence of keystrokes that I think usually involves the backspace key in the visual editor.
It has no effect on the visual appearance. It’s just code that doesn’t need to be there.
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I seem to have posted under two different user names (tthsalumnifund and jlehrer1953).
Timethief, thanks for your answer. I’m quite sure my issue does not relate to how I copy/paste because I do it so many different ways (as the situation demands) in various blogs on .com and self-hosted.
I’m thinking this is a WP bug that started appearing for me in the past few months.
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Is this still happening for you? If so could you point me to the specific portion of a post where the line-height is changing? That’d help me look in to the details. Thanks.
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This is happening for me too. I read about it a lot and it seems an issue with TinyMCE (dunno if that’s possible, dunno if WordPress uses that).
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Hi there,
Currently there has been an update to the Editor as seen here:
This should no longer be happening! If you find any bugs, can you please report them here:
https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/posting-of-word-files-with-tables?replies=6
Thank you all!
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