FF + CSS is double-spacing as default.
This Mozilla support forum DOES NOT have this problem. Please notice I have pressed [Enter] at the end if each line. This is the third line. There are no blank lines. The following is copied from another un-related forum about "double spacing".
Before I describe this problem, let me describe my configuration. I am running Linux MINT on an Apple iMac. There is no Apple software on this machine. Firefox Quantum is my browser of choice. [Enter]
This is a new line. I now see three lines above, auto-word-wrap after 'Apple', and no extra blank lines. [Enter]
Now I preview my typing, and there are extra blank lines added after each. [Enter]
Have not seen this CR-LF problem since using DOS & WordPerfect (circa 1985).
CarriageReturn & LineFeed.
This is my 7th line of text. Count 'em. Depending on the width of this window, you may have more or less lines due to the auto-word-wrap feature. You counted the first blank line? CSS defaults to the Top Margin + Font Height = first blank line.
end of copied text.
Also, Mozilla Thunderbird defaults to this oddity, meaning all eMails I sent, were received double-spaced. However, it has File, Edit/Preferences/Composition/HTML, checkbox labeled: 'Use Paragraph format instead of Body Text by default.' I switched the X to space, turning double-line-spacing OFF.
My question: How do we turn this oddity OFF in Firefox ?
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See what I mean ??? What I typed, is NOT what you see.
Modified by acrizona
Hello, please always :
- https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/export-firefox-bookmarks-to-backup-or-transfer
- https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/back-and-restore-information-firefox-profiles
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Thank you.
Thunderbird's HTML editor is a "rich text" editor, unlike the simple text entry forms on this site.
Generally speaking a rich text editor interprets:
- Enter or Return => new HTML paragraph (<p>), which will have a blank top and bottom margin by default
- Shift+Enter or Shift+Return => line break (<br>)
In Thunderbird, there is a Preference you can change here to change the Enter/Return key to creating line breaks:
Thunderbird > Preferences > Composition > General, HTML
uncheck "Use Paragraph format instead of Body Text by default"
Firefox doesn't have anything like that as far as I know.
Thanks - that was exactly my question...(enter key) How do we turn this oddity OFF in Firefox ?(enter) AND... This Mozilla support forum DOES NOT have this problem.(enter) I am in SafeMode - U see only single-spaced lines.(enter) SafeMode now OFF - U see only 5 single-spaced lines.
When you are using a simple form like the ones on this site, you are not creating HTML. Just text.
If you are using an HTML editor, you need to observe the rules of that editor as to what different keys do. I'm not aware of any way to universally override the way a site's editor interprets Enter and Shift+Enter. That's up to the website. If you don't like how their editor works, please let them know your feedback.
I don't know much about CSS StyleSheets, but the crowd response is "its works fine in all other browsers". Google CSS discussions about this very problem, all entail spacing-relative-to-font-height. Sometime after 2012, the 'norm' ??? was changed to add 1-font-height-space before the paragraph, and 0.5-font-height-space after each line wrap-around. This default plus your Enter-key totals 2-font-spaces between paragraphs.
Simply stated, each time you hit Enter, you are ending a paragraph.
However, unless you specify the spacing in your CSS coding, different browsers do not default the same.
As mentioned before, "this forum does not have this problem". All I know is; Thunderbird has an answer to this problem.