Title: Text Widget – Formatting?
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Text Widget – Formatting?

 *  [damon1212](https://wordpress.org/support/users/damon1212/)
 * (@damon1212)
 * [16 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/text-widget-formatting/)
 * I’m trying to add some text into a text widget, but there are no paragraphs or
   line breaks like I would like. I have tried adding
    <p></p> but that does not
   do anything either. I’ve tried but with “automatically add paragraphs” on and
   off. On seems to add paragraphs (as opposed to the entire text being one giant
   paragraph) but still does not add line breaks like I would like.
 * and while on that . . .how would I add a hyperlink or formatting? I don’t need
   an html lesson (I’ll figure that out somewhere . .. )but the html does not seem
   to be workign at all since the <p></p> is not doing anything. . . or is that 
   the wrong html anyway?
 * HELP PLEASE!

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 *  [inkblot](https://wordpress.org/support/users/inkblots/)
 * (@inkblots)
 * [16 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/text-widget-formatting/#post-1357049)
 * Hello damon1212,
 * You can do the following to solve your “line break” problem in the default WordPress
   text widget;
 * you may have for it.`<p /><br />`
    Remember to always give
 * The text given above is, obviously, for example only and is the end of one paragraph
   and then the beginning of another. Notice that I did enter a “return” key after
   the `<p /><br />` HTML tags to start the next paragraph.
 * Also, do NOT check the “Automatically add paragraphs.” square with the example
   fix above.
 * As for a hyperlink, I believe it’s just the regular HTML formatting, as in;
 * `<a href="http://www.yourwebsitehere.com/">your link anchor text here</a>`
 * Other formatting issues? You mean such as bold, italics, etc? I suppose it depends
   on what kind of formatting you are attempting to do, but I would think that simple
   formatting (bold, italics, and so forth) would work just as good as the example
   fixes shown above work.
 * Best of luck to you,
 * Inkblot

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