My Text in my post is Too Bunched Up

Try this: Go into your WordPress admin area and to the the Design/Theme Editor. Look for the Stylesheet on the right (style.css) and click on the title. The code for the basic styleheet should appear in the html window. Look for a line of code that looks something like this, defining the body:

body {

width: 800px;

margin: 0 auto;

font: .75em “Lucida Grande”, “Lucida Sans Unicode”, Sans-Serif;

text-align: center;

background: #fff url(images/bg.gif);

color: #808080;

line-height: 21px;

}

CHANGE the “line-height” to a larger number. Mine used to be 17 here and I changed it to 21. Then, click “Update File” button and view your blog. Be sure to refresh your browser or you will still see the same old line height. You may have to clear your cache before you see the changes. For your theme, it may look a little different, but there should still be “line-height” somewhere in the stylesheet that you can modify.

Thank you for the reply but that didn’t quite work out.

Basically, it just made my text bigger. What I want to do is have a sentence or two followed by a

Kinda like I am typing here. The problem is, for some reason, it won’t obey my
commands in code

The problem is, for some reason, it won’t obey my
commands in code

What type of commands are you giving it? The text should not get bigger unless you change the font-size. As witzelwords suggested ‘line-height’ is probably what you’re looking for. Now if you are trying to get some whitespace after each paragraph tag you may want to adjust the padding-bottom to the p tag in your css.

Thanks Erik, I will try that…I tried it and I couldn’t fin the padding bottom…I inserted line height as this code didn’t have it and all that did was make it bigger…I am just wanting my posts to obey my

commands so my text is broken up more

Here is the default css for the body”

*
{
padding: 0px;
margin: 0px;
}
body
{
font-size: 0.8em;
padding: 15px 0px 15px 2px;
background: #5C6A74 url(‘images/bg1.gif’);
}
body,input ,textarea
{
color: #3B3B3B;
border: 1px solid #d6d3d3;
background-color: #FFFFFF;
font-family: “georgia”, “times new roman”, serif;
}

Any ideas? I didn’t see paragraph bottom..I don’t really know css that well but if I know what to change I can handle it

Thanks for your time…I really appreciate it…I have been messing with this the last few days and its driving me nuts lol

I meant to say that all I am trying to do is have breaks in my text

Try replacing your body CSS with the following. I saw you didn’t have a line height specified in your existing CSS. To change the line height, just change the number, which is now set at 15:

body
{
font: .75em “Lucida Grande”, “Lucida Sans Unicode”, Sans-Serif;
font-size: 0.8em;
line-height: 15px;
background: #5C6A74 url(‘images/bg1.gif’);
}