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Thank you Senff.

I did try Samuel’s way but not sure if it’s a theme issue but it still doesn’t work on iPad or IE. The only solution that’s working now is that I’m manually copying the post from Chrome and pasting it in my Visual Editor but it still messes up the blockquotes so, I’m manually fixing each one of those. I was hoping for a simpler solution. Anyway, thank you for your time.

You are right, using pre tag is bit dodgy.

Hi Hakkim, I tried that but with Advanced TinyMCE it doesn’t work.

Hi Samuel. Apologies if I breached any rule by offering to pay. I tried entering Shift-Enter but it somehow removes them. I am looking at View Source for Scenario 3 in Chrome and this is what I see:

<p>“Is it true that there is no soul?” he said.<br />
“Yes, it is true that there is no soul,” Buddha murmured softly.<br />
His disciples were happy to hear the answer. The Sage knew everything, they thought.</p>
<p>The next day, another visitor posed a similar question.<br />
“I’ve heard that there exists in everyone an eternal element called soul. Is it true?”<br />
“Yes, my dear, it is true that there exists in everyone an eternal element called soul. Some also call it consciousness.”<br />
“But, soul is different from consciousness,” he argued.<br />
“Indeed,” said Buddha.</p>

And interestingly, for Scenario 1, I see the following (even though there are no br tags but it renders the carriage returns just fine.)

“Is it true that there is no soul?” he said.
“Yes, it is true that there is no soul,” Buddha murmured softly.
His disciples were happy to hear the answer. The Sage knew everything, they thought.

The next day, another visitor posed a similar question.
“I’ve heard that there exists in everyone an eternal element called soul. Is it true?”
“Yes, my dear, it is true that there exists in everyone an eternal element called soul. Some also call it consciousness.”
“But, soul is different from consciousness,” he argued.
“Indeed,” said Buddha.

So my logic is that something is specific to pre tag that it’s handling the carriage returns alright. Can’t I do something similar to p tags? Plus, I’m trying to avoid going through every post. I thought there might be a simpler solution. Because all these posts work on all devices on the original website on blogger.

Thanks

I’m using the visual editor. I typed the text exactly and pressed Shift+Enter for the direct voice and Just Enter where I wanted a hard return.

Also even if just copy paste the text, the problem remains. The funny thing is why is working in the pre tag but not in the normal paragraph?

Also tried Advanced MCE options like not removing p and br tags but nothing is working. The only thing I just figured out is if I copy the text from Chrome (where it works) and paste it in my new post, it retains the line-breaks. But I’m looking at a way to avoid doing it for my 230+ posts. There must be a simpler solution, some CSS trick I hope/wish/reckon!

Thank you stephen.

-Dev