Title: Extra breaks
Last modified: August 21, 2016
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# Extra breaks
* [Mike Stefanik](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mike-stefanik/)
* (@mike-stefanik)
* [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/extra-breaks/)
* It looks like Enlighter is inserting `
` tags (exactly like that) between
certain elements. It seems to be cropping up between span tags. Obviously it
causes formatting problems, but it’s also malformed HTML. The br tag is an empty
tag, it should never be used to try and enclose anything. In any case, as soon
as I disable Enlighter, no more extraneous br tags end up being inserted anywhere.
It’s unfortunate, because it looks like a fairly slick plugin, but for me, it’s
unusable in its current state.
* [https://wordpress.org/plugins/enlighter/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/enlighter/)
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* Plugin Author [Andi Dittrich](https://wordpress.org/support/users/andi-dittrich/)
* (@andi-dittrich)
* [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/extra-breaks/#post-5053700)
* Dear Mike,
thank’s for your feedback. That seems to be a very strange problem…
could you provide me an example ? Are you using the VisualEditor or Shortcode
mode ? Generally Enlighter doesn’t add any linebreaks.
* WordPress itself causes some problems by adding br/p tags (wpautop filter), but
the Enlighter Settings Advanced Options -> “WpAutoP” Filter Priority should avoid
such issues.
Are you using any other highlighting/formatting plugins which may
cause the malformed code ? What happens if you disable all plugins other than
Enlighter ?
* best regards, Andi
* Thread Starter [Mike Stefanik](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mike-stefanik/)
* (@mike-stefanik)
* [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/extra-breaks/#post-5053701)
* I’m using a theme in conjunction with Visual Composer, but it really isn’t practical
for me to disable all other plugins (because the theme itself depends on a few,
and the site just wouldn’t work at all at that point). I do know when I went
through and systematically disabled the other non-theme related plugins trying
to pin down what could be causing it, it was Elighter that seemed to be the issue.
* With all other plugins enabled, with Enlighter enabled, the problem occurred,
with it disabled, the extra `
` pairs were no longer being generated.
It may be some specific interaction with Enlighter and Visual Composer or another
plugin, but at this point, the path of least resistance for my particular site
is to find another syntax highlighter plugin, rather than replace a bunch of
other plugins.
* Plugin Author [Andi Dittrich](https://wordpress.org/support/users/andi-dittrich/)
* (@andi-dittrich)
* [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/extra-breaks/#post-5053703)
* Well..VisualComposer may cause this issue, because it’s very deeply integrated
into WordPress and it’s filters as well as modifies the content. Generally i
cannot test Enlighter against every Content-Managing tool, sorry for this but
it’s an off time project. With pure TinyMCE it will work fine! 🙂
* Maybe “WP Syntax Highlighter” or “crayon syntax highlighter” will work for you.
* btw. it would be great if you can add a remark to your review that you’r using
VisualComposer.
* Thread Starter [Mike Stefanik](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mike-stefanik/)
* (@mike-stefanik)
* [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/extra-breaks/#post-5053704)
* Sure, I can do that. And I really did like how Enlighter works, I just thought
it was strange that it was impacting pages (somehow) that had no syntax highlighting
used on them at all.
* Plugin Author [Andi Dittrich](https://wordpress.org/support/users/andi-dittrich/)
* (@andi-dittrich)
* [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/extra-breaks/#post-5053706)
* thanks!
the only possibility can be the option `Enlighter Settings Advanced
Options -> "WpAutoP" Filter Priority` this is the only function which modifies
the standard WordPress behaviour on each page (including a warning). I believe
the WpAutoP in combination with the VisualComposer and Enlighter will cause the
issue and it should disappear when changing these option to “default – no change”
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](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/br/)
* [html](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/html/)
* [linebreak](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/linebreak/)
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* Last reply from: [Andi Dittrich](https://wordpress.org/support/users/andi-dittrich/)
* Last activity: [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/extra-breaks/#post-5053706)
* Status: not resolved