# Post formatting difficulties

**URL:** <https://community.cartalk.com/t/post-formatting-difficulties/84262>\
**Category:** General Discussion\
**Created:** [March 20, 2014, 6:03pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/post-formatting-difficulties/84262 "2014-03-20T18:03:25Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![TwinTurbo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8baadc/32.png) [@TwinTurbo](https://community.cartalk.com/u/TwinTurbo)\
**Post date:** [March 20, 2014, 6:03pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/post-formatting-difficulties/84262/1 "2014-03-20T18:03:25Z")

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Why does it seem to crop up randomly?  
One day I can enter paragraph breaks by hitting the ENTER key (they appear correctly in the edit box) and then do not get processed with the post is saved?  
If I go back and edit the existing post, the breaks are in there.

Some days later, everything is back to normal.  
Then it’s broke again.

It doesn’t impact everyone as I can see posts made about the same time but they have paragraph breaks.

It doesn’t matter if I use the mobile or “conventional” site interface nor is it related to the browser as I have Andriod, IE and Chrome acting the same way.

EDIT: Sheesh, now it works when posting this new thread but I just left this otehr thread where it doesn’t- [http://community.cartalk.com/discussion/2297360/toyota-vehicle-caused-unintended-acceleration-really-occurred#latest](http://community.cartalk.com/discussion/2297360/toyota-vehicle-caused-unintended-acceleration-really-occurred#latest)

???

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**Author:** ![the\_same\_mountainbike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@the\_same\_mountainbike](https://community.cartalk.com/u/the_same_mountainbike)\
**Post date:** [March 22, 2014, 5:50am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/post-formatting-difficulties/84262/2 "2014-03-22T05:50:31Z")

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I too have been having problems these past days. I’ve been unable to open threads. The little “script propeller” just kept turning and turning. It seems okay now.

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**Author:** ![cigroller](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c68b51/32.png) [@cigroller](https://community.cartalk.com/u/cigroller)\
**Post date:** [March 22, 2014, 5:57am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/post-formatting-difficulties/84262/3 "2014-03-22T05:57:45Z")

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I can’t explain or help with the random stuff about the website.

But I can just say that on those occasions that you’re trying to put in a break but it won’t show up, you can probably just type in the html code for it - which is simple. A block of text is just encased by \< p \> at the beginning and \< / p \> at the end - but leave out the spaces that I put in.

So start the post with \< p \>, type away and then put \< / p \> wherever you want the break. Then start again with the \< p \> and so on. You can just add them in where you want them after having typed. It should work.