Double linebreak / several hard-returns possible?

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Is it possible to create more than one linebreak in the Visual Markdown Editor?


sentence 1

sentence 2


sentence 3




sentence 4

When I enter this in the editor, it outputs;

sentence 1

sentence 2

sentence 3

sentence 4

I tried this in config.php >>> c::set('markdown.breaks', true); but that didn’t work (also tried to end double spaces after an empty line).

Nothing worked, so I ended up with a custom tag (br:#) :frowning:

Which will output the amount of hard returns specified in the tag;

sentence 1
(br:1)
sentence 2
(br:2)
sentence 3
(br:3)
sentence 4


kirbytext::$tags['br'] = array(

  'html' => function($tag)
    {
  $br = $tag->attr('br');
  $break = '';
  $i = 1;

  if(!is_numeric($br)){$br = 1;}

    while ($i <= $br)
      {
    $i++;
    $break .= '<p>&nbsp;</p>';
      }

  return $break;
    }
);

I also asked this question on the GitHub page - but I am not sure this is an issue, or “by design” - so I asked it here again…

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That’s not an issue with the Visual Markdown Editor but with the Markdown syntax in general. No matter which field type you use, Kirby (or any other Markdown parser) won’t add <br>s there.

Using a specific number of line breaks to create a gap is not recommended anyway because of semantics (and that’s why Markdown doesn’t support it). Consider using content blocks with custom classes that get their spacing using CSS.

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Cool - clear answer!

I’ll stick with my own tag then; I need extra line-breaks for an ‘artistic’ text-block (so no need for semantics there).

The visual appearance of this particular text-bucket is more important than it’s semantical-value :slight_smile:

(I used to create this kind of text-buckets in 1993 with the use of a transparent 1x1 GIF pixel… so I’m glad I can upgrade to the Kirby-tag right now!).