If I place a text widget there, the anomaly shows up as a line break (hard return) in the middle of the text. If I place a picture widget, a blank image box appears below my title but floating above the main image box. If I place the Recent Posts widget there, I get an extra list box with a single blank bullet below my title and above my main list box.

The "blank line" is in a fixed position near the top of the sidebar, and its position isn't affected by adding or removing widgets above it.

Is there any way to fix this?

Seamus O'Connell

The right way to increase the space below a paragraph is to add bottom margin or bottom padding in the HTML editor, for example:
<p style="margin-bottom:24px;">TEXT HERE</p>
or:
<p style="padding-bottom:24px;">TEXT HERE</p>

Change the number to adjust the space.

Or, of course:
<p style="margin-top:24px;">TEXT HERE</p>
or
<p style="padding-top:24px;">TEXT HERE</p>
for extra space above a paragraph.

(be sure "Format" is set to paragraph)

If you want more than one line of space, you can use html to define how much space you want:
http://wpbtips.wordpress.com/2009/06/10/formatting-text-pt-1/

There is nothing wrong with your hidden text, but if someone copies and pastes, then the text will become apparent. It doesn't look very professional… With coding you can control more precisely how much space you want.

However, it seems to me that an easy way to do it is to insert a line with some dummy text and use <Select text colour> in the Kitchen Sink to set the dummy text to white (or whatever is the background colour). I’ve done it in a blog I've just started to set up. But are there any problems I’m not aware of?

Seamus O'Connell

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How would you format it so that the blank line is gone?

Line of words and such.
<ul>
	<li>Bullet</li>
	<li>and</li>
	<li>unordered</li>
	<li>list</li>
</ul>

Can you see why there is a blank line now?

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I noticed it worked in one post and it didn’t in another. I got a look in the code and I noticed that if you change the style (for instance from normal to italic) on a blank line and then type a (space) it makes the line a valid empty line.

So I’ll explain it again, do it in the exact same order as I prescribe
do this:
1) press (enter) so you get a new line in the visual editor
2) change the type to italic (or bold) in the wysiwyg editor
3) press (space)

It's important the font type changes between the lines in order for it to work.

happy to be of service

Saigim

ie. by 'entering' or adding
in HTML.

should read...

ie. by 'entering' or adding <br /> in HTML.

AND

<p> </p>

should read...

<p> </p>

However, I have managed to force HTML to create an extra line by adding:
<p> </p>

I don't know why I am having this problem but it could be related to the theme I am using which is Mistylook (by Sadish).

I just wanted to share this info because I have been having enough probs with it till now, and there might be others with the same prob.