Title: Extra line spaces
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Extra line spaces

 *  [glaucoonline](https://wordpress.org/support/users/glaucoonline/)
 * (@glaucoonline)
 * [16 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/extra-line-spaces/)
 * Hello! 🙂
 * Please, I’d like to know how I could do something when editing…
 * When writing a new post, many times I want to insert EXTRA line spaces to better
   organize my text. It’s useless to hit Enter key more then once; the post will
   not show the extra lines when published. It’s also useless edit html to manually
   insert tags like <p> or 
   : they are ignored when the post is publish.
 * I REALLY NEED this. Please any help here? What’s the trick? 🙂
 * Thank you!s

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 *  [figaro](https://wordpress.org/support/users/figaro/)
 * (@figaro)
 * [16 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/extra-line-spaces/#post-1218057)
 * A complete amateur way to do it, but what about putting something like a few 
   lines of dots between your text and change the text color to white…if your post
   background color is white. Like this:
 * [link moderated]
 *  [transpersonal](https://wordpress.org/support/users/transpersonal/)
 * (@transpersonal)
 * [16 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/extra-line-spaces/#post-1218062)
 * How about using html 
    tags, it’s also a very amateur way of doing it but it 
   should work.
 * If you **always** need extra space under each paragraph then you can use CSS.
   Suppose the main area on your page is a div called:
 * <div id=”content”>
 * You can put this this in your css file:
 * #content p {
    margin: 0 0 10px 0; }
 *  [transpersonal](https://wordpress.org/support/users/transpersonal/)
 * (@transpersonal)
 * [16 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/extra-line-spaces/#post-1218064)
 * Tag got stripped, I meant break tags: `<br />`
 *  [batrachoid](https://wordpress.org/support/users/batrachoid/)
 * (@batrachoid)
 * [16 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/extra-line-spaces/#post-1218074)
 * For more than one `<br />`, you need to use a non-breaking space.
    For example,
   I did this with `<br />&nbsp;<br />&nbsp;<br />&nbsp;<br />&nbsp;<br />&nbsp;
   <br />&nbsp;<br />`
 *  Thread Starter [glaucoonline](https://wordpress.org/support/users/glaucoonline/)
 * (@glaucoonline)
 * [16 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/extra-line-spaces/#post-1218168)
 * Nothing works here. This is ***********VERY************ annoying! Why would the
   great WordPress think we cannot use extra spaces?
 * Thank you, my friends, for your suggestions. Any of them works here. I insert
   the codes properly, but the editor *automatically* deletes them. (???) That’s
   why I think this is so much annoying. I don’t understand what is the WP’s point
   of view here. Or this is a bug, maybe?
 * **TransPersonal**, I don’t allways need extra space, so I’ll not use CSS. But
   thanks for your special attention.
 * And **Figaro**, my only “solution” is follow what you suggest: white dots. 🙁
   Thank you!
 *  [figaro](https://wordpress.org/support/users/figaro/)
 * (@figaro)
 * [16 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/extra-line-spaces/#post-1218229)
 * Yea…it’s not pretty, but it works. 😉
 *  [gpeery](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gpeery/)
 * (@gpeery)
 * [16 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/extra-line-spaces/#post-1218365)
 * There is a disadvantage to this: when search engines find text that is the same
   color as the background, they are likely to ignore the site. The search engine
   cannot (or does not) assess the functional value of the text in this situation.

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