Paragraphs and/or line breaks in a <blockquote>

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#1

I saw this in an older post in the old forum, but I didn’t see that it was answered. I use blockquotes extensively, and some of them have paragraphs. I put them in manually, and as long as I don’t edit the post again, the breaks stay there. If I do ANYTHING to post, though, it strips all the paragraph or line break code I put it. Is there a fix for this?

#2

Hi There,

It’s really weird. The line break is working fine on my end in the blockquote element:

Could you please provide us with your website URL and admin account so we can take a closer look?

P/S: You can provide us with your admin account under the Secure Note button

Many thanks.

#3

Hey Thai! Thanks for getting back to me. There is no secure note button for me to send my creds to you. I only have link, bookmark and like.

The problem is that I can enter the line breaks in a block quote, save it, and they will stay in place UNTIL I edit and save something else. Then, the breaks are stripped from the code in the “text” section.

#4

Hi there,

Sorry about the confusion, the image above is where the secure note is for moderators, you should see the secure note as “secure note” with a key icon at the bottom of each post as described here: https://theme.co/apex/forum/t/themeco-support-overview/288

Thanks!

#5

Hi there,

Thank you for providing the login credentials. I added a test page and used the <br> tag to make the line breaks. Blockquote tag can not have block level elements such as p tag inside itself as a standard HTML validation says that.

You are right paragraph tags will strip out on the next save. The solution is the usage of inline level elements such as <br> <span> ...

Thank you.

#6

Thanks for your response. The one thing I did not mention is that this issues is in my posts, not pages, and that I’m not using Cornerstone for my blog. I have been using the <br> tag and not the <p> tag, but it DOES get stripped on a re-save. Can you give me an example of how to use <span> in a non-Cornerstone post in order to retain the breaks?

#7

Hi There,

You can use like this, note I added a double break tag for more spacing or a single for less, once you apply you will notice.

[blockquote cite="Mr. WordPress" type="left"]It was the most amazing WordPress theme I had ever seen.<br><br> Such beauty. Such grace. Such elegance. She was everything I never knew I wanted and so much more. <br>My beloved X will be with me always.[/blockquote]

Hope it helps!

#8

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