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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:
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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?
When I take a page I created before March and make a copy to create a new page, the new page copy grabs the new style. So you can see side-by-side that the CSS of normal paragraphs has changed (headings seem to be unaffected): Before the March update:
.rte--edit.cke_editable.uniformSpacingForElements blockquote, .rte--edit.cke_editable.uniformSpacingForElements ol, .rte--edit.cke_editable.uniformSpacingForElements p, .rte--edit.cke_editable.uniformSpacingForElements ul, .rte--read.cke_editable.uniformSpacingForElements blockquote, .rte--read.cke_editable.uniformSpacingForElements ol, .rte--read.cke_editable.uniformSpacingForElements p, .rte--read.cke_editable.uniformSpacingForElements ul { margin-bottom: 1.4em;margin-top: 0;}
After the March update:
.rte--edit.cke_editable.zeroSpacing blockquote, .rte--edit.cke_editable.zeroSpacing ol, .rte--edit.cke_editable.zeroSpacing p, .rte--edit.cke_editable.zeroSpacing ul, .rte--read.cke_editable.zeroSpacing blockquote, .rte--read.cke_editable.zeroSpacing ol, .rte--read.cke_editable.zeroSpacing p, .rte--read.cke_editable.zeroSpacing ul {margin-bottom: 0;margin-top: 0; }
Oh, thank goodness it's not just me! Have your IT admins looked into the Service Health? We have one incident for Sharepoint that doesn't sound related:
Some users may be unable to search within the Office portal, Outlook clients, and SharePoint Online sites User impact: Users may be unable to search within the Office portal, Outlook clients, and SharePoint Online sites. Current status: We've determined that a recent standard service update inadvertently contains a code regression, which is resulting in impact. We're reverting the offending change to remediate impact and anticipate the reversion to complete by our next scheduled update. Scope of impact: Some users may be impacted when attempting to search within the Office portal, Outlook clients, and SharePoint Online sites. Start time: Wednesday, March 22, 2023, 8:00 PM (3/23/2023, 12:00 AM UTC) Root cause: A recent standard service update inadvertently contains a code regression, which is resulting in impact.
I am experiencing the same thing. I confirmed that the paragraph spacing is missing in both the editor and final publish. It appears that pages I started before this week are not affected.
Hi Melissa,
Thanks for posting in the community. We are happy to help you.
Based on my test, it seems that I can't reproduce the same situation in the Text web part. I have recorded a video about the situation on my side. Also, the following screenshot is the situation when I published the page. If my understanding conflicts with your meaning, please point it out and provide a full screenshot for us to better understand.
If the Text web part still doesn't display the paragraph spacing on your side, please try to use another browser, like Edge, open the private window of the browser, go to the page, insert a new Text part, then check again. Also, you can try to input the content in a Word document, then copy and paste the content into the Text web part, then check again.
If the situation still happens, please ask your admin/IT department to go to Microsoft 365 Admin Center> Health> Service health to check if there are any related service incidents in your tenant. If so, please wait for the repair. If not, please create a support ticket via Microsoft 365 Admin Center> Support> New service request. That support team there will have the correct channel and resources to help you investigate more and find what exactly the reason has caused this situation.
We look forward to your response. Thanks for your cooperation.
Sincerely,
George | Microsoft Community Moderator