Help with line breaks on product description

Hello, I have a self hosted wordpress website and I’m trying to understand how line breaks are supposed to work, namely for product descriptions.

I’m using the basic editor and if I hit enter once in the wysiwyg view, then nothing is created in the HTML view. However, if I hit enter twice, a bigger space is created visually (not a problem) and a nbsp; is created in the HTML view.

When I render the page, I see the   is preserved, but of course, a white space is not a line break, so all my text is in one big row.

On the other hand, if I use the HTML view, add some <br> tags and publish/update the product immediately, I do get the line breaks in the page. I wouldn’t mind adding the tags manually, but the problem is if I edit it and for some reason switch over to the WYSIWYG view again, the br tags are gone. The same happens if I wrap my paragraphs with <p> tags. It’s very inconvenient.

What is the correct way to have line breaks in product descriptions?

Some more details: I have elementor and woo commerce plugins. I tried to disable most of my plugins looking for conflicts but nothing changed. All my plugins are up to date.

I looked up online for similar problems and I’m confused with the results I see, ranging from “this should work out of the box” to adding filters and changing functions in the theme php file. I’d like to have (please) a clear vision of what should be happening, and what is the best approach to have the line breaks working in the page and not going away if/when I edit the product.

Thanks

• This topic was modified 9 months ago by alco24.