Burp

[susandennis]

DW is eating my paragraph spaces! My entries have lovely paragraphs in edit but when I hit post, all of a sudden my entry is one giant run on paragraph! WHAT the heck? The beta editor does it.

The HTML editor does it. Only the Rich Text editor will give me decent paragraphs.

This is a PIA cause I hate the Rich Text editor. Grrrrrrr

Comments

[arlie]

That's expected behaviour for real html. If you want lines between paragraphs, you need to use <p>

If I recall correctly, DW has changed its terminology and user interface in this area, possibly more than once.

I haven't used the beta editor - or noticed that it existed. So no idea what interface it's supposed to present.

Typing this reply, I have no apparent control over what kind of formatting it expects from me; I used preview to see what I was going to get.

When I post, I'm offered a choice of rich text or html, plus a button to disable auto-formatting. When I use "html" without disabling auto-formatting, it keeps my paragraph breaks - no need to use <p>. To me, that means it's *not* real html, it's some kind of hybrid. (IIRC, you need to disable auto-formatting as well as selecting "html" in order to get *real* html.)

[susandennis]

I get all that and understand the html hybrid - been using it for a long time. BUT your reply pointed out the problem exactly. Somehow the auto formatting thing got checked! Unchecked and ask is well. Thank you

[arlie]

Every once in a while I uncheck it on purpose, perhaps to post something that's html-heavy, and forget to turn it back on for the next post. ;-)

[mdlbear]

I think they call the auto-formatting HTML "casual html". I create my posts offline in a text editor (Emacs, which has at least two HTML modes that I know of). I use the markdown option for comments unless I need some HTML feature that I can't get that way.