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1. Jack Cope
   Member
   Posted 4 months ago #

   My brother made me this lovely theme which, as I'm sure you'll agree, looks pretty nice. However there is a problem. Whenever a comment is made in the comments section, any returns entered to create new paragraphs don't show up when the comment is posted. Now, I can see the returns on the dashboard, they just seem to get lost along the way. An example:

   http://thepenofawanderingstranger.com/personal/a-note-on-hollocaust-memorial-day/#comments

   On the dashboard I can see the commenter has but a return in after his second sentence but it just doesn't show up.

   I know it is probably a very easy problem to fix but sadly my knowledge of coding and all those shenanigans doesn't reach very far... I'm a writer ;-)

   Thanks in advance, there are a few other issues with this theme but for me that one is more important, the others can wait.

   Jack

2. peredur
   Member
   Posted 4 months ago #

   I'm not sure how the comments text boxes work, so I don't know if this is helpful... However, for a browser, a space, a carriage return, a tab and so on are all the same thing: instances of 'white space'. A browser renders any series of white space characters as a single space (note that a non-breaking space -   - is not white space).

   The only way to get a browser to end a 'line' and start a new one is to enter a <br /> tag into the stream. The only way to start a new paragraph is to end the current one <\p> and to start a new one with <p>.

   So, if a comments box simply returns a plan text stream without HTML, a 'Return' character is just an instance of white space and will be displayed as a space (or a new line if the space occurs at the extreme right edge of the block, of course, for ltr languages).

   I'm afraid that's just an explanation and not a fix. I've no idea what might constitute a fix, I'm afraid.

   Cheers

   PAE

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