Support » Fixing WordPress » WordPress editor adds unwanted non-breaking spaces

  • Hi,
    Wordpress keeps adding unwanted, hidden non-breaking spaces to my posts.

    I though my copy&pasting from other editors might cause this but it does not. It also happens when I just write in the WordPress editor. Apparently it can happen any time between two words.
    This has been happening for years. The only way to find these spaces is to look at the post and guess where a line break might have come too early. Then I would have to go into the editor and rewrite that part, most reliable is to start with the last letter of the word before the non-breaking space and finish with the first letter of the first word after it.
    They do not show up as  

    Apparently this is by no means a new issue:
    https://wordpress.org/support/topic/unwanted-non-breaking-spaces-permeating-post-text?replies=10
    And here is another discussion: http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/29702/wordpress-automatically-adding-nbsp

    I am not using Tiny MCE. And I repeat: I do not paste text from another editor.

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  • Write content without pressing enter will solve the problem.

    or try to paste your content in another editor like sublime etc and then make paragraphs as per your you needs that will save you.

    Thread Starter fert

    (@felixo)

    Thank you for your input. However, your suggestions do not solve the problem. They are merely workarounds.
    Writing without pressing Enter ist not an acceptable solution. How am I supposed to start a new paragraph?
    Using a different editor kind of defeats the whole point of WordPress, really. Writing and editing is the one core reason for installing WordPress.

    you can wright your content directly into the wordpress editor without pressing enter i think this is what i am doing to wright content directly.

    or you can switch from visual to text editor and write what ever you want for paragraphs use html tag <p> your content </p>

    write*

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