Help debugging a wierd line break issue

For example if my PHP code is –

$disp_gallery .= "<font size=\"3\"
style=\"text-align:center\">Photo Title</font>"

The code generated is –

<font size="3"
<br>
style="text-align:center">Photo Title</font>

I had similar issues with a <br> tag being added to the first line in a form I was trying dynamically generate using PHP.

The solution I found was to edit the default-filters.php file in the wp-includes folder.

There are several lines of code that look like this:
add_filter( 'the_content', 'wpautop'

My issue was resolved when I commented out the line under

// Display filters
...
//add_filter( 'the_content', 'wpautop'            );

Hope this helps.

You’re user may have a plugin/theme that manipulates wpautop or unautop or something similar (assuming you are using shortcode_unautop() )

The easier solution is to take out the line-break from your string. That’d completely avoid the line-break character getting converted into a

Change the code to:

$disp_gallery .= '<font size="3"'
 . 'style="text-align:center">Photo Title</font>'

which is how code formatting is done without introducing unwanted line-breaks.

Can’t think of a reason you’d want to keep the line-break in the string.