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Creating line breaks in WordPress

Have you ever tried to put one or more line breaks between lines of text by hitting the return key, only to find that WordPress strips it out no matter how many times you reset it?

The reason this happens is because that extra space is considered, by WordPress, to be a style attribute and wants it to be controlled with CSS.

Well, here’s some good news: there are a few different ways to overcome this.

Hand code a break

WordPress HTML Editor Tab

Switch to the HTML editor and manually add a line break by typing the following code where you want the break to appear.

 <br/>

( “br” stands for “break”)

If you want more than one break enter the code twice.

 <br/>  <br/>

Keyboard Combination

Use the TinyMCE Advanced Plugin

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