Line breaks

Sun, 07/29/2007 - 19:39 — Alan

I'm confused. This site is inconsistent in showing link breaks. I'm using TinyMCE as the editor for creating content on this site. It's quite nice actually. I think that part is working ok for the time being.

But Drupal is sometimes showing line breaks and sometimes it doesn't. Now I know that Drupal stores the content as it was written. The filters are applied on output only. That's a powerful paradigm and easy to grasp once you get the hang of it. Means you can write once, but render for a variety of presentation formats.

The standard filters include converting whitespace line breaks to html line breaks (that sounds useful), a html convertor to strip out unwanted markup and a filter to convert http addresses to anchor links. And they can be applied in any order. The order does matter.

The thing that gets me, sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. Some of the posts look ok and some have no line breaks making it awkward to read. I've add the br tag to the list of allowed tags and it doesn't seem to make any difference.