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1. jangell
   Member
   Posted 2 months ago #

   Hi,

   For the past few weeks, I've been having issues with the spacing in the body of my posts. The breaks and paragraph breaks are being ignored when I submit the post, though they appear in the admin dashboard.

   Here is what it looks like now.

   http://besottedgourmet.com/2009/09/10/cod-fillet-in-clam-chowder-with-smoked-oyster-panzanella-and-lemon-thyme-butter/

   This is what it used to look like, and what I would like for it to look like....

   http://besottedgourmet.com/2009/06/03/cherry-chocolate-cupcakes/

   I've tried going into the style sheet to add spacing to the "p" , as others have recommended, but to no affect. This started with the new version of Wordpress (2.8) - does anyone have any recommendations?

   Thanks!

2. esmi
   Member
   Posted 2 months ago #

   The two pages you mentioned above look identical to me, in terms of paragraph spacing, when viewed using Firefox 3. But I think I've found the reason for the strange spacing - you've been pasting in content from something other than a plain text editor. Your post content is full of lines like:

   <p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><em><span style="font-weight: normal;"><br />
   </span></em>
   </p>

   If you paste the content from each existing post into NotePad (or another text editor) first, delete the post content in WordPress and then copy from NotePad back into WordPress again, you should be able to get rid of the pasted formatting code.

   In future, don't paste content from a word processor into WordPress as the pasted text will may contain additional formatting. Sooner or later, this formatting will stop your pages from being displayed correctly.

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