How to force line breaks in Wordpress?

dory

WP is being a little awkward lately. I'm trying to make a bit of space between my paragraphs, I press return, but when I look at it in preview the paragraphs are all squashed again. I've tried putting in some < /br> but they don't work.
Anyone have an idea?

Also having trouble getting the font bigger on some words. The usual <FONT SIZE= etc. doesn't work. Does WP work differently?

Thanks

NathanKingerlee

I had the same problem with Blogger and ended up having to put a dash - between paragraphs to create a space; then turning the dash the same colour as the blog background, so it couldn't be seen to the reader. A bit long winded I know.

yoyo

NathanKingerlee wrote: »

I had the same problem with Blogger and ended up having to put a dash - between paragraphs to create a space; then turning the dash the same colour as the blog background, so it couldn't be seen to the reader. A bit long winded I know.

You can create a space using the html tag   (Non breaking Space)

Nick

conorcan2

dory wrote: »

WP is being a little awkward lately. I'm trying to make a bit of space between my paragraphs, I press return, but when I look at it in preview the paragraphs are all squashed again. I've tried putting in some < /br> but they don't work.
Anyone have an idea?

Also having trouble getting the font bigger on some words. The usual <FONT SIZE= etc. doesn't work. Does WP work differently?

Thanks

The correct tag is '<br/>', not '< /br>'.

Your stylesheet might be overriding certain visual formats. For example, the '<font size = ' tag isn't used that often anymore.

Find your sites stylesheet and look for the 'p' and 'br' style definitions.

If your site is live, PM me a link to it and I'll have a goo at the stylesheet.

dory

Thanks conorcan. My site is www.tuisligh.com

Eventually what I did was put in <h5></h5> tags between each line. It did the job! But if there's something funny going on conorcan maybe you could see.

conorcan2

In style.css, under the following definition:

br.clear { margin: 0px; padding: 0px; }

you could add:

br { padding-bottom: 10px; line-height: 16px; }

If it works (i.e. causes a line break), then you might experiment with changing the line-height value.

If it doesn't work, try:

br { clear:both; padding-bottom: 10px; line-height: 16px; }

dory

Great, thanks!