Thread Starter
Kjetil
(@kjetilgf)
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The oddest part is that it works in one out of two identical fields (even with almost the same contents): I duplicated one wysiwyg field that worked, but the copy just won’t work.
See screenshots – frontend/backend
Preserving line breaks would depend on:
- Field Settings: In addition to
wpautop being enabled, are p and br in the allowed HTML output tags for the field?
- Output context: How and where is the field being output in the frontend theme? Does switching to a default theme or changing the context or display method resolve it? Sometimes themes or widgets can remove HTML from output.
- Is any HTML output in the frontend when testing? Raw HTML can be viewed in the browser web inspector, or right click > inspect element. One would expect to see
<p> tags for returns and <br/> tags for shift-returns.
- If the HTML is correct, but display is not as expected, is there any theme CSS applied to the elements which might change expected display — such as displaying paragraph tags as
inline-block instead of block, flex display, floats, etc? This can also be tested by switching to a default theme or trying a different display context.
Thread Starter
Kjetil
(@kjetilgf)
Thank you for coming back to me.
Solved.
I started out writing you a thorough reply, but after once more connecting the relevant custom field to the front end (a Powerpack BB module), the text displays correctly, with paragraphs.
I suspected that one of the field options had screwed things up, but after toggling them on and off in different combinations, I still can’t figure out what caused the hickup.
Trim whitespace at the end of lines
Remove blank lines including empty “p” tags and “br” tags
Remove extra blank lines
FYI – I checked that
1 – html and wpautop are allowed
2 – Output context: The field content is displayed via a BB Powerpack module > “+” > Pods field: Post, page, term” (not a post custom field – important) > Connect > correct Pods field slug.
3 – No html wa utput on the frontend
4 – Can’t say now, but absolutely a thing to keep in mind.
Thanks again for your checklist!
