Line breaks are driving me effing NUTS!

This is what I’m trying to do:

In your CSS you have no top or bottom margin on your paragraphs – that is your problem

in your stylesheet, line 73 style.css change the margin on the p tag to this:

p {
font-size:11px;
margin:10px 0;
padding:0;
}

I just can’t figure out WHERE

please help!!

I don’t understand what you’re trying to do.

First: do you have a file named style.css included in your theme or any file that ends with .css?

Not that I can find… but I was looking for something called “stylesheet.css” But I didn’t run across that in any folder but.. there are tons of places to look…

Any hints as to where to begin?? wp?? themes??? content?

Try looking at wp-content/themes/atahualpa/style.css and add your CSS to the end of that short file.

Don’t forget to save an unmodified copy of that file in case something goes horribly wrong.

I found a css folder… but nothing in there is named style or stylesheet.

Sorry Jdembowski…missed your post. Found that and trying the fix.

found it… still can’t have line breaks! This the most annoying part of word press. Line breaks!!! REALLY??? Good grief!

If I had know such an annoying thing would cause me to lose days of progrmming… I would’ve stayed on blogger!

tried this too… didn’t work

1) turn off the rich text editor in user profile
2) edit file: (base) wp-includes/formatting.php

after line 62 which has:function wpautop($pee, $br = 1) {
add this: return $pee;

And wpautop will not mess with your html tags much … it does still convert
to < br /> and it performs the php html_encode (or htmlidentities) function to special characters, like quotes.

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Anyone know how to add line breaks PLEASE HELP ME!!!!!

SORRY, File above was in wp-includes/formatting.php

AGAIN, DOES NOT WORK!

After much more hair pulling – I’m just documenting here in case someone else is going nuts!

I found a forum that suggested using <code><br /></code>

This seems unstable. It works but when you go back into the WYSIWYG, the br bits disappear but WP seems to act as if they are…. but I don’t trust what I can’t see!

For the record, I also tried typing a period and making it white (bg color) but the gaps are huge.

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The best thing I’ve found is
<style> table br {line-height:0pt}</style>

Which gives me the same as a shift return OR

<div style="height:1.4em;visibility:hidden;">1</div>

This is the equivalent of 2 lines visually.

I hope this saves someone from the headache I’ve had!

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If you just want a hard line feed:

‘<br class=”blank” />’

Saildude… doesn’t it get deleted???

For some reason no it does not get deleted. I use it on my site regularly to help formatting. Seems to be OK even when I switch between HTML and Visual editing.

So far, it doesn’t seem to get deleted! What amazing is I read forum posts three years back and never found that!