Title: Extra  breaks inserted during conversion
Last modified: August 31, 2016

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# Extra breaks inserted during conversion

 *  [mcxg46](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mcxg46/)
 * (@mcxg46)
 * [9 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/extra-breaks-inserted-during-conversion/)
 * I am using your Facebook Instant Articles plugin, and have discovered a problem
   with it:
    If a line in the WordPress article is in bold (strong tag), and contains
   in it words in italic (em tag), then during the conversion to Instant Articles,
   the plugin inserts a new paragraph (p tag) before and after the italic words.
   This causes Facebook to reject the article. Is it possible to fix this? Many 
   thanks, John

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