line breaks

A blank line? Try just pressing Shift+Enter?

doesn’t work. also tried editing the tiny_mce.js file to no avail… i’m fairly proficent at this shit and and ready to go back to moveabltype…. a simple line break can’t be this difficult… it is ridiculous…
jed

try putting < br / > between the lines, without the space after “<” and before “>”! (it kept translating the code into a line break here so that was the only way i could show you… seems to work though!)

I’m using WordPress 2.1 and I cannot figure out how to add more than 1 blank line either…. I’m an experienced web developer and BR tags won’t work… it all gets cleared as soon as a I switch from Visual to Code view using the TinyMCE editor.

Can anyone help??

Simon

*bump*
Still having this issue… Is it really that hard to insert extra blank lines?

This is not ideal, but I have a second administrator account for myself and I have it set to not use the rich text editor. I use that account when I want to do things in html. I only use the other account (which has the editor enabled) when I want to do quick and simple stuff using the rich text editor.

Bottom line…if you disable the rich text editor, then you should be able to format your text the way you want without the code being stripped.

Steve

Same problem here! Obviously a bug. This is a big problem.

WordPress support please chip in on a fix ASAP.

fixed my own problem.

mattymo
How?

As far as I understand, WordPress always converts blank lines typed in the editor to the paragraph tag in the resulting XHTML (this conversion is hidden). BUT (as far as I understand and have noticed from personal experience): the paragraph tag might not result in blank lines, depending on the style sheet and XHTML.

Supposing you want the paragraph tags (created by blank lines in the editor) to create blank lines in the output, check for something like

.posts p {padding-bottom: 1em;}

in the style sheet, and something like

<div class="posts">
<?php the_content(); ?>
</div>

in the XHTML.

Not sure if this is the source of your problem, but it is a possibility.

I can’t for the life of me add a simple blank line. I’ve disabled the rich text editor and tried to add blank lines with

or

 

but to no avail; WordPress just squished them all into nothing. Do I have to edit my CSS or something? I’m using the BOB WordPress template. Here’s the stylesheet:

[moderated: big ol blue’s stylesheet removed]

Thanks to anyone who can help. I can’t believe how hard it is to add a blank line!

The Text Control Plugin does exactly the job. Lets you turn on and off the automatic reformatting site wide or post by post.

It was originally written by someone else, but I updated it to work with WP2.2.1 and pages, as well as posts, excerpts and comments that it had before.

I’m using it on my blogs to reformat whenever I feel like it instead of having autop always on, or always off.

It does a similar job to Alex Kings “WP-Unformatted” plugin, but without messing with custom fields, AND you can change the formatting routine used from texturize to markdown to a couple of others, or none at all.

HTH

Thanks, gfindlay. Your plugin works quite well.

I’ve also tried all the possibilities like with BR and P tags.

A simple solution that worked for me was using an empty table.

Example:
<table border=”0″><tr><td height=”500″></td></tr></table>

Kind regards,
Erik

All these workarounds are great but why have a WYSIWYG editor with a window for ‘code’ when really, you can’t add code without it getting overridden? This doesn’t seem like a resolved issue to me.