Hard return doesn’t put extra space between paragraphs

What in the css file dictates this?

p
(usually, it is the idiocy of the theme author: setting margins 0 – zero – all around the paragraphs)

that’s what I’m searching for… I’m sure it’s a margin issue, but I can’t find the correct margin value… I know p is what breaks the lines, just don’t see anything that says “p margin=0” or anything such…

changing ‘line-spacing’ spreads out all the lines of text but not between paragraphs… That was one of my incorrect guesses… ??

So it turns out the idiocy is inclusive of both the author and the guy editing the life out of the template… ??

Thanks for your help…
J

If there was a link to your blog in your profile (and not to a non-WP site) I could have told you exactly where the issue was.
Lesson: If you have a display problem – don’t ask questions without a link!

Good point…
here’s the link…

sarah.asmallorange.com/~frmp

Thanks again for your help, look at your convenience

Very bad CSS file…

Add this to it:
.post p {margin-top: 25px;}

(play with that value to your liking)

Wow… Thanks… The CSS file does seem much different than others I’ve played with…

I appreciate your help, and feel compelled to let you know that the site in question is not my site and that’s why it’s not listed in my profile… I’m just a volunteer helping out a church…

Anyway, thanks again for the help…
J

Keep it in one single thread: I deleted your other topic with the very same question.

Finding_Your_CSS_Styles

Thanks, sorry if it was a double post — to me it was different only because your solution worked in posts and not in pages…

I’m still not sure why it does in one scenario and not in the other…

And what did you find when using the Codex tutorial I linked to above? Probably, in your Page Template (by default: page.php) you have another div, not “post”.
Also: Template_Hierarchy

I read the link, thanks you… Very informative…
But, no, it uses the same div… right and post… Exactly the same as the posts… So I’m still playing detective…

In fact, now I went back to look at the post pages to see if there was a difference that I missed beyond the obvious… And even the post pages are back to the same thing with no extra margin space between p’s…

Grr…

Hmmm… did you modify ANYTHING in the template files?
I could swear yesterday it was <div class="post"> but now it is <div id="post">

CSS 101:
for class you use: .post
for id you need: #post (in the stylesheet)

OK… I’m getting closer…

The index.php file seems OK… It’s the individual page and post pages that are causing problems… Back to the drawing board.

OK… So I had to print out the php files in question to find the difference… I STILL don’t understand why it’s coded like this or why the code makes it work… But that’s irrelevant I guess… Here’s the snippet that made it work correctly…

<?php if (have_posts()) : ?>
<?php $x = 0; ?>
		<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
<?php if($x = 0){ ?>

				<?php $x++; ?>
				<?php }else{ ?>

Then the post information… Then…
`<?php } ?>
<?php endwhile; ?>`

Maybe someone can splain it to me, maybe it’s just not important, but that was the solution…

Thanks again, Moshu for your help.
J

Hi all,

Had the same problem while reading this post … and then it hit me. For everybody out there that just wants that onetime extra whitespace between your paragraphs. Here’s how:

https://www.gp-net.nl/2008/08/09/dirty-hack-for-wordpress-to-realize-a-hard-return/

Kind regards,

Gerard.