Title: Problem with soft return
Last modified: February 1, 2019

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# Problem with soft return

 *  Resolved [yepecece](https://wordpress.org/support/users/yepecece/)
 * (@yepecece)
 * [7 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-soft-return/)
 * Hi,
 * For some reason the soft return setting does not work.
    I have checked ‘allowBreakInSingleLineInput’
   and uncheck ‘disableReturn’.
 * I tried changing to the default theme and deactivated all plugins but it still
   acts like a normal break.
 * It used to work fine and on another site which I use it works fine.
    I believe
   the problem started when I was adding some custom buttons via php (which I deleted).
 * Thanks for your help.

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 *  Plugin Author [John Huebner](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hube2/)
 * (@hube2)
 * [7 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-soft-return/#post-11157834)
 * I don’t think I completely understand the issue.
 * When you uncheck ‘disableReturn’, this allows the field to be a multiline input
   like a textarea. This results in the setting for ‘allowBreakInSingleLineInput’
   to have no effect.
 * Checking ‘disableReturn’ and ‘allowBreakInSingleLineInput’ turns the field into
   a single line input field and allows you to manually enter breaks by typing `
   <br>` into the field.
 * Can you clarify your issue?
 *  Thread Starter [yepecece](https://wordpress.org/support/users/yepecece/)
 * (@yepecece)
 * [7 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-soft-return/#post-11183743)
 * Hi and thanks for your answer.
 * I guess I did not formulate my question correctly.
 * I wanted to know if you could enable the soft return shortcut (command + return
   key). This is the normal behavior in the tinyMCE editor as well as in other apps(
   Word, inDesign, etc…).
 * So basically return is a new paragraph and command return is a break (<br>).
 * Thanks
 * PS
    You could maybe add a conditional logic to the ‘allowBreakInSingleLineInput’
   to hide it if ‘disableReturn’ is unchecked.
 *  Plugin Author [John Huebner](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hube2/)
 * (@hube2)
 * [7 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-soft-return/#post-11183888)
 * I cannot disable the return adding a new paragraph and enable the CRTR/Command
   return adding a line break. These options are part of the medium editor script
   that I’m using in this plugin [https://github.com/yabwe/medium-editor](https://github.com/yabwe/medium-editor).
   I believe there has been some discussion on this topic. It would require implementation
   in medium editor and them supplying a new option to make it work.
 * This is the main reason why I created the allowBreakInSingleLineInput feature.
   It’s really just a hack that leaves <br> tags when the values is updated.
 * As far as hiding this option when the others are not checked, I will try to remember
   this the next time I work on this plugin.
 *  Thread Starter [yepecece](https://wordpress.org/support/users/yepecece/)
 * (@yepecece)
 * [7 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-soft-return/#post-11184380)
 * After searching the GitHub it seems it is a bug with safari:
    [https://github.com/yabwe/medium-editor/issues/1119](https://github.com/yabwe/medium-editor/issues/1119)
 * So I guess they need to fix it.
 * Thanks for your help.

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 * 4 replies
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 * Last reply from: [yepecece](https://wordpress.org/support/users/yepecece/)
 * Last activity: [7 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-soft-return/#post-11184380)
 * Status: resolved