Title: shortcode, paragraph
Last modified: May 28, 2019

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# shortcode, paragraph

 *  Resolved [paviland](https://wordpress.org/support/users/paviland/)
 * (@paviland)
 * [7 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/shortcode-paragraph/)
 * Hi
 * Since updating to 1.9.3.6, I have noticed that the references in the Bibliography
   tab in the above link now have extra spaces in them; they used to look similar
   to this:
 * [http://www.gowerbonecaves.org.uk/publications/669-2/](http://www.gowerbonecaves.org.uk/publications/669-2/)
 * Can you please tell me if there is a quick way to resolve.
 * Many thanks
 * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Fshortcode-paragraph%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US)
   to see the link]_

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 *  Plugin Author [Roland Barker](https://wordpress.org/support/users/xnau/)
 * (@xnau)
 * [7 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/shortcode-paragraph/#post-11581054)
 * As far as I can tell from the page the plugin isn’t affecting the layout in any
   way.
 *  Thread Starter [paviland](https://wordpress.org/support/users/paviland/)
 * (@paviland)
 * [7 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/shortcode-paragraph/#post-11588109)
 * Many thanks for looking at that. I have rolled back to Version 1.9.3.5 and all
   is OK once more. If you look at the Bibliography tab of ‘The page I need help
   with’; there are no large spaces between records and dates in this.
 * When I viewed the page with Version 1.9.3.6 in Edge, Safari and Firefox and saw
   the same problem with all three so something seems different in how it displays
   the output from the shortcode I pasted into that RichText field.
 * Can you please advise what I might try next.
 *  Plugin Author [Roland Barker](https://wordpress.org/support/users/xnau/)
 * (@xnau)
 * [7 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/shortcode-paragraph/#post-11589524)
 * OK, I see. There was a new CSS rule that is affecting the layout…I didn’t know
   where to look at first.
 * You can solve this one with a custom CSS rule. In the plugin settings under the
   Custom CSS tab, put this rule:
 *     ```
       .bibliography .textarea {
           white-space: inherit;
       }
       ```
   
 * The basic reason is that textarea fields aren’t designed to display HTML, and
   you have a lot of HTML in there. This CSS rule will fix the layout for that particular
   field.
    -  This reply was modified 7 years ago by [Roland Barker](https://wordpress.org/support/users/xnau/).
 *  Thread Starter [paviland](https://wordpress.org/support/users/paviland/)
 * (@paviland)
 * [7 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/shortcode-paragraph/#post-11589704)
 * Perfect! All now resolved.
    Thanks you very much for your help.

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 * [shortcode](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/shortcode/)

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 * Last reply from: [paviland](https://wordpress.org/support/users/paviland/)
 * Last activity: [7 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/shortcode-paragraph/#post-11589704)
 * Status: resolved