Title: Extra spacing/padding
Last modified: August 31, 2016

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# Extra spacing/padding

 *  Resolved [typeless](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jbalyo/)
 * (@jbalyo)
 * [10 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/extra-spacingpadding/)
 * Hello-
 * I found a minor bug which I have already found a fix for, but wanted to let you
   know about it so you can maybe incorporate it into the next version. If this 
   were GitHub I’d just make a pull request, but alas.
 * Basically, when using the shortcode in a page, it adds extra spacing above the
   form which shouldn’t be there – about 300 pixels or so between the form and its
   nearest content to the north.
 * The issue is that WordPress seems to interpret newline characters (\n) in this
   area as line breaks. In one of the plugin files (/lib/esu-front-end-class.php),
   newline characters are used liberally – I assume this is to make the resulting
   code look cleaner… unfortunately, it is having unintended consequences.
 * To fix it, I just commented out all of the line breaks from /easy-signup/lib/
   esu-front-end-class.php. These lines in particular:
 * $esu_return .= “\n”; // line break
 * Thanks, hope this helps.
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 *  Plugin Author [Greenweb](https://wordpress.org/support/users/greenweb/)
 * (@greenweb)
 * [10 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/extra-spacingpadding/#post-7228132)
 * I use the plugin and haven’t run into this you can see it in action here: [http://www.beforesite.com/support/](http://www.beforesite.com/support/)
 * I wonder if the issue is specific to your server set up. Do you mind posting 
   what you’re running and I’ll recreate it, Thanks!
 *  Thread Starter [typeless](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jbalyo/)
 * (@jbalyo)
 * [10 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/extra-spacingpadding/#post-7228162)
 * This particular WordPress install is hosted on a shared server running Linux 
   and PHP 5.4.45, WordPress 4.4.2… not sure what else you need?
 * The newline characters don’t seem to serve any actual purpose other than formatting
   source code – not as important as proper formatting on the front end imo.
 *  Thread Starter [typeless](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jbalyo/)
 * (@jbalyo)
 * [10 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/extra-spacingpadding/#post-7228163)
 * I should note that the newline characters I’m speaking of are between hidden 
   form elements – there _really_ does not need to be spacing added between invisible
   elements.

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 * Last reply from: [typeless](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jbalyo/)
 * Last activity: [10 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/extra-spacingpadding/#post-7228163)
 * Status: resolved