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Double-breaks to Paragraphs

By CC on Jan 30, 2009 at 10:33 AM 3 Vote 0 Votes

Sorry for the flood of questions, but... you know.

My posts come out with double-breaks (<br /><br />) between each paragraph, instead of using actual paragraph tags.

Does anyone have a fix for this? I'd try using regex_replace but there may be DIV tags in the mix which shouldn't be wrapped with paragraphs, and I'm not feeling prepared to write a really complex regex pattern right now. :-P

I searched the plugins but didn't spot anything particular to this. If Assetylene or Custom Asset plugins affect this... the first doesn't have documentation & I turned off the second so it doesn't get into a fight with Assetylene. :-)

My editors are editing posts using the Rich Text format, if that makes a difference.

Thanks for any suggestions!

Reported on Movable Type 4.2

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    Author Profile Page CC | January 30, 2009 11:42 AM | Reply

    OK, I had yet another really stupid idea for what is probably a hideously scary hack. This is not the answer I'm looking for, so please give me better answers than this.

    I already wrapped my body content in a div (class= body_content) so I could control the space between it and the "read-more" link.

    So... replace every double-break with a close-div and an open-div for more body-content. Effectively wrap every paragraph of body content within a div. Better than wrapping it in paragraph tags (if there's an internal div). But probably dangerous. I'm depending on my limited pool of users not entering any double-breaks in odd places. :-(

    This is my code in case anyone wants to do something similarly dumb.

    <div class="body">
	<mt:if tag="EntryBody">
		<div class="body_content">
			<mt:EntryBody filter="html" regex_replace="/<br \/><br \/>/g","</div>\r\r<div class=\"body_content\">" /><mt:ignore>
					// That pattern wraps every paragraph in a classed div. Hack!
				</mt:ignore>
		</div>
	</mt:if>
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    Author Profile Page Rob Kenny | January 30, 2009 1:15 PM | Reply

    Have you tried any of the other editors? I think it is a feature of the RTE.

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      Author Profile Page Su replied to Rob Kenny | January 30, 2009 1:54 PM | Reply

      It's because of the default RTE, but it's also dependent upon which browser is being used. I believe that IE, for example, does return separate paragraph tags(though I could have that backwards).

      This is in part because of the way the built-in RTE works. If it's a problem for you, I'd suggest using one of the plugins that replaces it.

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