Title: Spacing between paragraphs Last modified: August 18, 2016 --- # Spacing between paragraphs * [halsmith](https://wordpress.org/support/users/halsmith/) * (@halsmith) * [21 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/spacing-between-paragraphs/) * I worked as a technical writer for many years, and one of our main concerns was the spacing between paragraphs. This is critical white space and you want to use it wisely. It looked to me like WordPress was wasting this resource. I am now learning CSS, where you control vertical spacing between block elements with padding and margins. I looked at the style sheet by Dave Shea and Matthew Millenweg, and I didn´t see how it could work. There weren’t any vertical margins or padding anywhere in it. But there was plenty of spacing between the paragraphs in Internet Explorer. So I made myself a simple HTML file with only , < BODY>, and a couple of s in it. IE put spacing between the paragraphs automatically! This was a breakthru moment for me, and right now I just want to alert you to this situation. I will be hard at work making my own style sheet, where I control the spacing between paragraphs completely – probably by using indents on the first line of each paragraphs – except for the first one. I will let you know when I get it done. Hal Smith Viewing 2 replies - 1 through 2 (of 2 total) * [Mark (podz)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/podz/) * (@podz) * [21 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/spacing-between-paragraphs/#post-101618) * .storycontent p { margin-top: 25px } or any other value will do it, or margin- bottom, but either way WP uses a default value as it is not specified. As with all things CSS, you can change it to suit. * [Root](https://wordpress.org/support/users/root/) * (@root) * [21 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/spacing-between-paragraphs/#post-101619) * Thank you for that insight. It can be hard for new starters to see immediately that regardless of the CSS each html tag will be styled in some fashion by the browser anyway. The very tag paragraph means – put in a bit of space here :). Likewise for all the header series. Viewing 2 replies - 1 through 2 (of 2 total) The topic ‘Spacing between paragraphs’ is closed to new replies. * 2 replies * 3 participants * Last reply from: [Root](https://wordpress.org/support/users/root/) * Last activity: [21 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/spacing-between-paragraphs/#post-101619) * Status: not resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics