Entering Line Breaks

i have the same problem, downloaded the tinymce application
wordpress version 4.1.1 and tinymce version 4.1.7

No answer to this simple question? Can someone please just give me an honest answer – will this plugin allow me to insert a regular line break tag < br /> or not? A simple yes or no would be greatly appreciated.

You can “type” a line break by pressing Shift + Enter. Same as in many other text editors and as described on the Internet at numerous places.

The problem is that multiple line breaks don’t make much sense on a web page. If you need more than one, you probably want some “white space”. Can just add empty paragraph. That is not a good practice either, but…

Thanks, but doing a shift + enter is NOT the same as a line break. Yes I do want white space, and yes, there ARE times when you may want some line breaks (white space) on your page. Such as here: Discovering Belize around my videos and photos, I want white space. I don’t want text all jumbled around the graphics, so there ARE reasons to have white space in your web site. However, it is NOT good practice to just put in empty paragraph tags either <p> space? </p> is NOT good HTML practice either!

So the answer to my question is obviously No – the TinyMCE Advanced plugin does not allow me to simply use a line break like I should be able to.

Thanks for your response.

Ah, I think I understand the problem. Trying to edit web pages as if they are “printed” pages doesn’t work. The web pages are “dynamic”, meaning they have to change and adapt to the computers/devices of the people visiting your site. Things like page width, font size, typeface, etc. are all controlled by the site visitor.

In that terms using empty paragraphs or multiple BR tags to try to “push” the text into some place would work in some conditions but fail in other. Good test is to resize the browser window’s width while previewing a post.

Thanks Andrew, and yes, I know that a page resizes according to the device being used, and I have done that, which is why I wanted true line breaks instead of empty paragraph tags.

However, that wasn’t my question. My question was whether or not the TinyMCE would allow me to put i a true line break tag <br /> and the answer is no, so I will consider this question resolved. Thank you for your input.

i tried everything possible, but a
or shift+enter doesn’t do anything. or i must be doing something wrong

Rickkooter, no, you aren’t doing anything wrong – the “Shift-Enter” didn’t work for me either. The paragraph tag with the space tag inside it like this <p> &nbsp; </p> does work to give a blank line, but sometimes (for me) it gives too much white space between the actual text lines, whereas a normal line break <br /> would work exactly as I want. The only way I know of around the <p> &nbsp; </p> giving too much space would be to add a bit of CSS to the code to adjust the line-height. Unfortunately, I don’t know enough about Word Press’ CSS rules to give you a clear example. Maybe someone else can give you a correct snippet.

Right, Shift+Enter inserts one BR tag. So the text will look like”

Text text text<br>
text text text.

If you insert more than one BR, they are usually merged in a paragraph tag (if it makes sense at the location you inserted them).

BTW this has nothing to do with this plugin. That’s how WordPress works.