I have maintained a blog at
http://facesofthehindenburg.blogspot.com/
for the past four years. It is a niche blog covering some fairly
specific historical subject matter, and as such it contains a finite
number of posts, which I update as I find additional information.For
the past year or so, it has been virtually impossible for me to make
updates to my existing articles without Blogspot creating major
formatting problems for me, particularly with regard to line and
paragraph spacing. In short, when I go into edit mode the system adds
large amounts of space between paragraphs, I can find no setting options
that eliminate the problem, and no amount of fiddling with the HTML
seems to remove the extra spacing. I'm not even sure what is causing the
extra spacing to be added in the first place.
I don't even have
to make any actual edits for the problem to occur. I can open up an
existing article in which the layout/formatting is just as it has been
since I posted it a few years back, and without making a single edit I
can click "preview" and the preview view of the article contains large
chunks of space between paragraphs. Again, this is after clicking "edit"
and immediately clicking "preview".
I even tried removing all
formatting from an existing article and trying to just rebuild it from
scratch - and it STILL ends up with spacing problems.
I have
searched in the forums and elsewhere online for a solution repeatedly
throughout this past year, and have found absolutely nothing that has
helped. From what I could find in the forums and in commentary elsewhere
on the internet several months back, it appeared that perhaps the
problem was that I was using an old template that was no longer
compatible with recent Blogspot system changes. So, I spent a great deal
of time several months ago changing over to a new template and
formatting it so that my blog continued to look the way I want it to
look. It didn't do a thing to help, and the spacing problems continue to
prevent me from updating my articles.
Does anyone have ANY idea
of what I can do to make my Blogspot blog useable again? I really don't
want to have to move the whole thing elsewhere, but unless there is some
way to restore control over formatting and spacing to me I'm not sure
I'm going to have much of a choice.
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---3) When you EDIT a post, in the Post Options section on the right,
what settings do you have for Line Breaks/<BR>/Enter etc
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To fix it you
are going to have to go into the HTML rather than Compose mode. (If
anyone's figured out an easier way to do this, please speak up.)
What
you need go into HTML view and delete
the extra line breaks. The code for these will look like either
<br> or <br />. Then you are going to have to go back into
COMPOSE mode and fix the formatting because the alignment may be messed
up.
On my own blog I have old posts that
need to be updated, and I can tell you that I've had to essentially do
this to every one to make it work with New Blogger.
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Patrick Russell zei:
Pam, As I told DarkUFO, I really appreciate the input, and I apologize for not having responded before now.
I
clicked the <br/> setting option and removed the extra line
breaks manually. It SEEMS to have worked, at least as far as what I'm
seeing when I click "preview".
My question is this. Are these
extra <br/> line breaks that Blogspot added to my HTML going to
come back on their own? It sounds like a dumb question, but I didn't put
these things in my HTML in the first place, so I'm not sure what the
specific mechanism was by which they were added. Is this something that
will replicate on its own? Or will the extra line breaks remain gone
once I've manually removed them from my HTML?
And I have to wonder why the hell Blogspot started adding these things to my HTML at all.
Thanks for the advice, Pam! I really appreciate it. ;^)
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Patrick Russell zei:
DarkUFO,
thanks again for everything. I hadn't considered the possibility of a
second private "testing ground" blog being a potential workaround. I may
give that a shot and see if it helps.As I mentioned to Pam,
activating the <br/> option and then manually removing all
instances of <br/> from my HTML seems to have eliminated the extra
spaces in Preview. I'll try your suggestion of doing a test post in a
private "dummy" blog and see how it actually looks.
Again, I
really appreciate the help on this. So much work went into these
articles, and since they're a work in progress, it's a real drag to not
be able to make updates. Seems like I'm getting closer to at least some
sort of workable solution, though, thanks to everyone's advice here.
T'anx! ;^)
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Mishka Blogger Top Contributor zei:
Patrick,
When
Blogger switched over the new UI, the setting for breaks in the post
editor defaulted to </br> instead the enter key. So any post you
open after that default was set, is affected. If you were to go to one,
reset it to Enter Key instead and then remove the break tags that got
put in that post, you should not find the break tags in any other post
(except perhaps for ones you opened while the default was still set to
</br>. I noticed this a long time ago when they first started
introducing the new UI and it would reset to this default EVERY DARN
time you went between new and old UI. I reported it as a bug and it went
unfixed since they were planning to switch everyone to the new UI
eventually. Why the system didn't just stick with what ever a user
already had set, I have no idea. I always compose my posts in the HTML
side of the editor so I would see the break tags immediately but those
on the Compose side wouldn't see them until they previewed their blog.
I hope this helps.
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Patrick Russell zei:
Hi Mishka,Yep,
that's about what I assumed was probably wrong. This was never an issue
before Blogger "improved" the UI, and each of the articles on my blog
was posted long before that happened.
Thing is, when I've worked
in HTML with the "enter key" option set, I've gotten the extra spaces in
Preview without the <br/> lines showing up in the HTML view.
Seemed like what fixed the spacing issue in Preview was when I set it to
"<br/>" and then removed those line breaks from there.
What
a mess, though. It seems like the UI switch was done in a fairly sloppy
and haphazard manner. I agree - they should have set it up so that it
didn't affect the HTML of existing posts. The way it is now just reeks
of a badly thought out shortcut used when they implemented the new UI.
Anyway,
thanks for the suggestions. I think I'm finally starting to get a
clearer picture of the nature of the problem I'm dealing with here.
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