Title: Serious Spacing Issues
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Serious Spacing Issues

 *  [faerystrangeme](https://wordpress.org/support/users/faerystrangeme/)
 * (@faerystrangeme)
 * [16 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/serious-spacing-issues/)
 * spba.stanford.edu
 * Soo…I’m having two issues.
 * 1) I’d like to add extra lines of space in between the sections on the header
   page, but WordPress consistently deletes any lines of or <p> that don’t contain
   anything. So I try to edit it in the Visual mode instead of HTML, but any whitespace
   I add in there gets deleted as well. I’m down to trying to put <div>s into my
   text to space it out –and it’s worked once, but then gets ignored the other two
   times I want space!
 * I have NO idea what’s going on, but I’m sick of it. I’ve been struggling with
   this since I first started working with wordpress, and it makes me want to go
   back to plain HTML and CSS pages. </rant>
 * 2) I want the text to wrap around my image. Using the settings options in the‘
   insert image’ popup box doesn’t work; I get the align=left or whatever inserted
   in the code, but the browser either doesn’t recognize it or completely ignores
   it. I’ve tried putting the image in myself, writing my own code, and it doesn’t
   recognize that, either. I’d really, really, _really_ prefer to not use a table–
   as I am now– to force the image to the left. It’s just awkward. Does anyone know
   what I’m doing wrong?

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 *  [tugbucket](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tugbucket/)
 * (@tugbucket)
 * [16 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/serious-spacing-issues/#post-1261967)
 * your probably not doing any thing wrong. Your probably using a theme. A theme
   that is probably using a universal reset or has padding/margins turned off on
   the elements you’re trying to space out.
 * On the floating, the align-left, etc classes default to wordpress are left out
   by o, i’d say about 90% of theme developers thus questions like this pop up about
   every 2 hours.
 * You need to post a link to your site. It’s the only way for someone lese to find
   an answer for you.
 *  [stvwlf](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stvwlf/)
 * (@stvwlf)
 * [16 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/serious-spacing-issues/#post-1262089)
 * 1) Add spacing by assigning CSS to the tags in your content area. Add top margin,
   bottom margin, etc. Assign a class if necessary where you need extra spacing,
   and assign that spacing to the class in CSS
 * 2) Your theme is missing CSS assigned to the alignleft and alignright classes.
   For starters use this and adjust padding as needed
 *     ```
       .alignright { float: right; padding: 15px; }
       .alignleft { float: left; padding: 15px; }
       ```
   

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 * 2 replies
 * 3 participants
 * Last reply from: [stvwlf](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stvwlf/)
 * Last activity: [16 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/serious-spacing-issues/#post-1262089)
 * Status: not resolved

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