{"id":370,"date":"2022-11-02T15:06:59","date_gmt":"2022-11-02T15:06:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/help.virtualcu.net\/?p=370"},"modified":"2025-03-19T17:36:54","modified_gmt":"2025-03-19T17:36:54","slug":"extra-line-feed-on-pages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/help.virtualcu.net\/?p=370","title":{"rendered":"Extra Line Feed on Pages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-371 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/help.virtualcu.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/ExtraLF.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"293\" height=\"336\" srcset=\"https:\/\/help.virtualcu.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/ExtraLF.png 293w, https:\/\/help.virtualcu.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/ExtraLF-262x300.png 262w, https:\/\/help.virtualcu.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/ExtraLF-131x150.png 131w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 293px) 100vw, 293px\" \/><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Question: When you are typing content on a page or post and hit enter &#8211; why is there an extra line feed?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica', sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Answer: WordPress is a rich text editor and it assumes that there is a new paragraph every time you hit enter (it uses new &lt;p&gt; tags). <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica', sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Solution: Use <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>shift + enter<\/strong><\/span> keys and you will get the normal line break that you are expecting.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: When you are typing content on a page or post and hit enter &#8211; why is there an extra line feed? &nbsp; Answer: WordPress is a rich text editor and it assumes that there is a new paragraph every time you hit enter (it uses new &lt;p&gt; tags). &nbsp; Solution: Use shift + enter ..<\/p>\n<div class=\"clear-fix\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/help.virtualcu.net\/?p=370\" title=\"read more...\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[191,194,195,186,192],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all","category-new-templates","category-original-templates","category-pages-and-posts","category-tips-and-tricks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.virtualcu.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.virtualcu.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.virtualcu.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/help.virtualcu.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/help.virtualcu.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=370"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/help.virtualcu.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":378,"href":"https:\/\/help.virtualcu.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370\/revisions\/378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.virtualcu.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/help.virtualcu.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/help.virtualcu.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}