Title: Text/paragraph formatting
Last modified: June 19, 2020

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# Text/paragraph formatting

 *  [danrayne](https://wordpress.org/support/users/danrayne/)
 * (@danrayne)
 * [5 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/text-paragraph-formatting/)
 * Before I present my query I should set the record straight – I may be a recent
   newcomer to WP and Elementor but I do have 40 years of hardcore programming experience,
   from C onward, including a good dose of HTML and CSS. Nowadays only coding for
   my own needs, i.e. my website.
 * I have problems formatting text with Elementor. Regular paragraphs are OK, but
   I’m stumped when editing long sections of text as it appears in novels: No extra
   lines between paragraphs and with the first line of each of these indented, except
   for the first line in a chapter or after a break.
 * I didn’t expect the editor in Elementor to be as rich in functionality as MS 
   Word, but I did expect my manual HTML tweak to work in “Text” view, with one ‘
   br’ and four ‘nbsp’s. Which it does, but once the text is saved and I need to
   edit it, all formatting is gone! Not a big problem with a handful of paragraphs,
   but if you’ve pages of text and have to rewrite/duplicate the code for each paragraph
   every single time, it gets more than tedious.
 * Have I missed something obvious? Someone please enlighten me!
    -  This topic was modified 5 years, 12 months ago by [danrayne](https://wordpress.org/support/users/danrayne/).

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

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 * Last reply from: [danrayne](https://wordpress.org/support/users/danrayne/)
 * Last activity: [5 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/text-paragraph-formatting/)
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