When typing in text in WordPress, a single return creates a line break <br />, a double return creates a new paragraph <p>. Unlike with an offline word processor like MS Word, multiple paragraphs or line breaks should not be used on the web to increase the spacing between blocks of text. WordPress just strips them out. Instead, paragraph and line spacing should be adjusted with css.
Unfortunately, some WordPress themes have styled their paragraphs to have zero space between them, resulting in squished paragraphs and users struggling to increase spacing with multiple returns.
A quick code cheat that can work to add an extra empty line is to use:
<p> </p>
But the best solution is to either switch themes or edit the theme’s css.
Wow… I can’t tell you how stressed I have been with this! THIS is the answer I was looking for. Thank you soooo much!
Thanks for the nbsp trick! This pissed me off for a while too. I don’t mind if the visual editor does whatever to help dumbies but I thought the html editor would print what I had entered as html.
