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I just tried the new Rich Text Editor of ExpressionEngine, but somehow all line breaks (br) disappear on te front-end of the web site. Paragraphs are working fine.

When I click view code in the publish-form, I can see all br’s and p’s looking good. When I view the output HTML on the site, all br-tags seem to be removed.

Any idea what could cause this?

Hi Marien,

Thank you for posting on the forums!

When editing an entry, select the “View Code” toggle in the RTE - are your line break tags visible there?

Was this an update from a provisos version of ExpressionEngine or a fresh install of 2.5?

Cheers,

When I click View Code all br-tags are there, on the site they disappear.

It’s a fresh install of EE 2.5

Hi Marien,

It sounds similar to this bug report, note Pascal’s explanation.

Cheers,

I don’t think that’s the case here. Is not about double line breaks, they should indeed become paragraphs. I agree with that.

But my problem is about normal line breaks. See attachments for publish form vs. front-end output.

Same is happening to me.  I have a site with poetry that needs single line breaks:

Line 1

Line 2

etc…

But when I save it, the line break tags just disappear.

This happens whether I enter them in RTE view or code view.

same for me. EE 2.5.1, fresh install without any content inside, expect a channel and associated channel fields. When adding a br-tag in RTE, Frontend don’t display it. In the source code there is a new line, but no <br>

Any chances for a bugfix or workaround?

Edit: I run EE local on a MAMP-Installation.

Hello all,

I just ran an update to 2.5.1 to verify - indeed, this is still an issue.

I’m going to bring this up to the Devs before filing it as a bug. They may be tracking it already as part of other issues they are working on.

Thanks for your patience!

Cheers,

please make it work in the next version! This makes the RTE unusable for me…

Hi Thomas,

I empathize and understand your frustration!

Like I said, I’m bringing this in front of the Developers for clarification.

Thanks!

I’m also having this issue with single line breaks.  I look forward to the clarification from the developers.

I struggled also with this issue last night - this behavior indeed makes the RTE almost useless. Looking forward to the dev’s clarifications.
Thanks¨
Hans-Jakob

Also having this problem of single linebreaks not working in RTE. Encountered this when trying to format an address. I hope there is a hack we can apply as I can’t wait until the next release for a fix!

Hi
a very quick fix - it worked out so far but it is not thoroughly tested:
in system/expressionengine/module/rte/ft.rte.php comment out line 165

/*$data = str_replace('
', "\n", $data); // must happen before the decode or we won't know which are ours */

If there’s a better fix, please let me know - thanks!
Hans-Jakob

Have the same issue here and the problem still persists in 2.5.2.
Very annoying issue, although Hans-Jakob’s fix works for me.

Let’s hope there’s official fix for this soon.