Question

I have a micropost feature and was testing the way it formats text that has been posted when displaying back to the user.

I pasted the following text like this:

and this was displayed back to me:

I’m using “simple_format h(content)”. When I remove the helper the text is displayed with out a new line from the word “In”. It displays as one big paragraph so I assume the helper is working but for some reason my double new lines are being ignored.

Any idea what is going on? Am I missing something?

Answer 1

Thanks to chrome developer tools as per usual. I realised that each text separated by 2 new lines were wrapped with p tags so I just added a bottom margin of 5px using css to p. Works perfectly.