Why can't I have blank lines?

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    jseunnasepp · Member ·

    Why is it that the system always takes <p> out of my posts?

    The paragraphs have no space between them and frankly look like shit and are hard to read! But if I put extra lines in the visual editor or <p> in html editor – then they are removed. This is media fascism !

    Very annoying!! :(((((((

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    jeremeylduvall · Member ·

    Hi there,

    You can certainly have blank lines in between your paragraphs! If you’re entering the text in the Visual Editor, pressing enter should automatically leave a blank line in between paragraphs. However, working in the Text Editor will single-space text. I’ve demonstrated the difference here:

    Text Spacing

    Can you make sure you’re working in the Visual Editor when you’re composing a post?You can read more about that here:

    http://en.support.wordpress.com/visual-editor/

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    jseunnasepp · Member ·

    Thanks.

    My problem is that it seems to change. I do need to enter the text editor at times and double spacing for all stuff seems to go away.

    Maybe if I always return to V-edit before saving???

    Still – even in text editor – why does it trash my <p> s?

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    jeremeylduvall · Member ·

    Hi!

    The Text Editor automatically strips your p tags and converts them into paragraph spacing in the Visual Editor. So, if you wrote the following:

    <p>This is a paragraph</p>
<p>This is another</p>

    That would automatically be converted to the following when you switch to the Visual Editor:

    This is a paragraph

This is another

    The only way the p tags are not stripped is if you added some styling HTML like this:

    <p style="color: red;">These won't get stripped</p>

    Does that make sense?

    If you’re entering text in the Text Editor, there are two ways to make sure you have a double-space in between paragraphs:

    1. Press “Enter” twice when moving to a different paragraph
    2. Wrap every paragraph in p tags. When you switch to the Visual Editor, the p tags will be stripped, but they should create multiple spaces in between paragraphs.

    Can you give both of those methods a try and let me know if they work for you?

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