Make wp automatically close tags?

  • Okay, it’s been a few days and nobody seems to have any idea how to fix this irritating issue — basically, it’s impossible to add a single line space between bulletpoints anymore (in the visual editor). Switching between html is frustratingly slow, but basically what used to happen, is that wordpress would automatically close the ul tag as below:

    <ul>
<li> item 1 example </li></ul>
<ul>
<li> item 2 example </li></ul>

    And so on. This was possible by double spacing and deleting the line in between.

    Now this doesn’t work anymore, and neither does holding down shift + enter.

    And yes, I have tried tinymce advanced, and it still behaves the same… if anyone knows how to fix this, I will be eternally grateful.

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  • Moderator Steven Stern (sterndata)

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    Volunteer Forum Moderator

    I can confirm this on a vanilla WP 4.7.4 install. The question is whether this is a bug in TinyMCE or a bug fix — should TinyMCE allow spacing in a list via shift-enter creating a <br> or should spacing be managed by CSS?

    I don’t know which is correct, but I do know shift-enter in a list used to work and now it doesn’t.

    Thread Starter pherojoe

    (@pherojoe)

    Unfortunately, adding a space in the ul part of the CSS will also add annoyingly big spaces on content that is already formatted the original way.

    Don’t understand why they can’t just leave it alone, it’s been working fine for years and then this small problem has wasted atleast 8 hours of my life trying to find a solution.

    Moderator Steven Stern (sterndata)

    (@sterndata)

    Volunteer Forum Moderator

    I’ve looked at the TinyMCE issues queue on github, but I’m not finding anything dispositive. Maybe your google-fu is better than mine — there’s probably some way to set it back to the old behavior.

    Moderator Steven Stern (sterndata)

    (@sterndata)

    Volunteer Forum Moderator

    the workaround is, in text mode, to do a shift-enter followed by &nbsp;. Ugly, but it works.

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    Thread Starter pherojoe

    (@pherojoe)

    Thanks Steve,

    Unfortunately, I think the only way for now is to simply close off each ul tag manually in html mode. Hopefully they can fix this soon, but I don’t know, they might not even see it as a problem. They removed underline and highlighting which were both useful features in the past and they haven’t come back.

    I think the developers need to stick with performance enhancements and security features, everything else is(was) already working as wanted!

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