Title: Paragraph Spacing Problem
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Paragraph Spacing Problem

 *  [cheero](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cheero/)
 * (@cheero)
 * [20 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/paragraph-spacing-problem/)
 * I cannot seem to get <br> and to work in order to make space for a paragraph.
   No matter what I do, the paragraphs stay connected to one another. I saw in the
   help file that <br> and get cleaned out by ‘newline characters’ but I have no
   clue what that means, I guess I don’t understand why a simple <br> and don’t 
   work.
 * Thank you in advance.

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 *  Thread Starter [cheero](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cheero/)
 * (@cheero)
 * [20 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/paragraph-spacing-problem/#post-319169)
 * Meant to say <.p> in there. 🙂
 *  [Joshua Sigar](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alphaoide/)
 * (@alphaoide)
 * [20 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/paragraph-spacing-problem/#post-319171)
 * Adjust the margin/padding property of your P tag in CSS file.
    Provide the link
   to your site if you need more info.
 *  [petit](https://wordpress.org/support/users/petit/)
 * (@petit)
 * [20 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/paragraph-spacing-problem/#post-319172)
 * If you are using the WYSIWYG Editor ( or Rich Editor ), pressing enter should
   get you a new paragraph, i.e. extra space between lines.
    If you press Shift 
   + Enter you should get a break tag. As WordPress generates xhtml the break tag
   is  The extra space before the ending “/” is there to make older browsers understand
   the break.
 * So if you are using the HTML Editor, you should enter a line break as 
    and a
   paragraph as Text here
 * Does it solve your problem?

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 * Last reply from: [petit](https://wordpress.org/support/users/petit/)
 * Last activity: [20 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/paragraph-spacing-problem/#post-319172)
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