removed between text/visual editors

When I enter a manual line break in the text editor (as both ‘enter’ key line breaks and ‘shift+enter’ line breaks do not work in the visual editor) they are removed when switching back into the visual editor.

I have added the below to functions.php for the child theme however the <br> linebreak continues to disappear from the text editor when switching between visual and text.

remove_filter(‘the_content’, ‘wpautop’);
remove_filter(‘the_excerpt’, ‘wpautop’);

I would rather use the visual editor however I am not able to create a line break, I can create a new paragraph however this intriduces a break that is larger than nessessary and looks unsightly.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Thank you,
Simon.

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