Can someone tell me how to reliably insert paragraph breaks into posts in this forum now? I’ve tried the html command, that doesn’t work, hitting Enter a bunch of times works sometimes but not every time…am I doing something wrong?
Can someone tell me how to reliably insert paragraph breaks into posts in this forum now? I’ve tried the html command, that doesn’t work, hitting Enter a bunch of times works sometimes but not every time…am I doing something wrong?
Thanks.
It works for me everytime if I hit enter 3 times (have 2 blank spaces between paragraphs)
I’ve found < br > (without the spaces) to work, as well as two blank lines or a line with a space. However, I did have trouble with one post where I put three blank lines - it lost one of the later breaks then, so you need to watch that unless it was a momentary glitch.
Enter, Space, Enter or three Enters in a row works for me when I do a fast reply, but it didn’t work for me when I tried to do an edit before.
I’ll try on this one and see if it works.
Edit: Three Enters were pressed before this line, so yes, it is working. I don’t know why it didn’t work on a different post.
Did that post have a quote box in that earlier post?
It’s iffy above/below a quote box.
When the forum first started, I couldn’t get a blank line above/below a quote box at all. I was using shrunken gray periods to hold the space. (Same as at Rendo). Thusly:
T Jaiman - 02 June 2012 05:19 PM
shapes/GenX updates were released.
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That’s probably it. Maybe they were reactivated by mistake, then .
I don’t think it is meant to work that way, it just does,
One thing to be said for old fashioned typewriters, you had a nice lever to do the carriage return
Your dating yourself Chohole. I always make that mistake with my 12 year old daughter, I’ll be giving her computer instructions and tell her to type this or that and hit “return”. She never get’s it - for the longest time she was looking at all the keys for one that said “return”. “I don’t know about your computer dad, but I’ve NEVER seen one that had a “return” button. I tried explaining it to her, that on old typewriters it would “return” you to the beginning of the next line - she still didn’t really get it.
One day we were at a garage sale and they had an old (electric) typewriter for sale and we plugged it in and she played around with it for a bit as I shopped. Later I asked her what she thought of it and she laughed hysterically. “It was ri-dic-u-lous! I can’t imagine people actually using those big clunky things! and ALL it did was type letters on paper? It had a plastic case and said “portable”! How could it be portable when it weighs like 50 lbs and has no batteries?!?” I smiled and said “did it have a “return” key?” She laughed again and said, “no in place of the “enter” key it a had a big huge backwards L key on it…. I still think your dreaming about that “return” key thing….”
I always make that mistake with my 12 year old daughter, I’ll be giving her computer instructions and tell her to type this or that and hit “return”. She never get’s it - for the longest time she was looking at all the keys for one that said “return”. “I don’t know about your computer dad, but I’ve NEVER seen one that had a “return” button. I tried explaining it to her, that on old typewriters it would “return” you to the beginning of the next line - she still didn’t really get it. 