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The styling has changed for paragraphs within the text web part in Sharepoint modern pages. All paragraphs in pages that I created prior to the March software update displays with paragraph spacing. All paragraphs in pages that I have created the past week have no paragraph spacing. I know I can just make another line break between each paragraph, but should I do that? I can see that the paragraphs are properly encoded within HTML p tags and no in-line styling.
What I really need to know is whether or not this is seen as a bug, and will be addressed quickly, or is this seen by Microsoft as the new way the rich text editor will work going forward.
Is the Sharepoint modern sites text web part RTE going to act like Notepad forever, or will it go back to the expected behavior described here? If I add extra line breaks because of the messed-up style sheet, and if it then gets fixed, I will have to go back and remove them all. Do I keep working on my intranet project, or wait for this to get fixed?
UPDATE/EDIT: Please upvote a thread on the feedback tool:
https://feedbackportal.microsoft.com/feedback/idea/08ab0f6b-23e4-ed11-a81c-0022484e6a77
in response to a Microsoft Support ticket. Details in this Community thread below.
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On July 17, the issue seem to have been fixed! Spaces between paragraphs in articles are back on new posts! Finally!
***UPDATE*** : On January 22, 2024, the problem is back in our tenant! @MelissaBrenneman can you reopen the thread?
Today's email on my ticket said it's gone to "internal team investigation" so I still hang on to hope! Keep posting how the semantic use of paragraph markup is essential to content re-use across apps, and web pages are not Notepad, etc. It really might help.
Thanks, Community!
I meant to mark this as helpful but didn't have that option, and I accidentally marked this as the answer, instead. Now I can't unmark it.
Oh well, at least I know that this change came as a big surprise to Microsoft Support, as well as to us. I hope we still have a chance to argue that this is a very bad idea.
Truly terrible decision. Give us the paragraph spacing controls, but don't break the paragraph semantics! How are we supposed to re-use the content across apps now that the markup isn't semantic?
What a horrible change. You could always Shift-Enter to do a non-spacing line break. So what exactly has been improved by this change? Sigh.