Visual editor loses formatting inserted in text editor

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  bellyqueen · Member · May 23, 2013 at 12:53 am

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  When I need to make extra space under a paragraph of text to leave room for the vertical extent of the accompany photo before the next photo and its paragraph of text appears, I can format the post as I wish in text editor using rows of   or <p>&nbsp;</p>

  But that formatting disappears if I switch back to the visual editor.

  How can I preserve the formatting, the extra space between paragraphs when switching from text to visual editor?

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  bellyqueen · Member · May 23, 2013 at 12:56 am

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  Well, what I meant to write was:

  I can format the post as I wish in text editor using rows of [the code for non-breaking space]

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  [the code for non-breaking space enclosed in the code for new paragraph]

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  justpi · Member · May 23, 2013 at 1:05 am

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  It disappears because the web standard is no multiple spaces, no multiple line breaks, no multiple paragraph breaks, no paragraphs without content. And what you’re trying to do would be a crude solution anyway. What you need to is cancel the wrap-around effect of left- or right-aligned images. You do this by pasting this after each image/text pair:
  <div style="clear:both;"></div>

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  bellyqueen · Member · May 23, 2013 at 3:20 am

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  Thanks!