No paragraph spacing in text web part (Sharepoint modern pages)

Anonymous
2023-03-22T19:49:09+00:00

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?

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Anonymous
2023-07-18T17:16:47+00:00

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?

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  1. Anonymous
    2023-12-12T23:38:25+00:00

    This issue appears to be back.

    ---edit---

    Seems to have resolved itself again for now as of 18/12/20213

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  2. Anonymous
    2023-11-08T17:04:54+00:00

    Is anyone still seeing this problem?

    I have two production tenants, and one developer tenant. On the dev tenant, and one production tenant - paragraphs in the text web part do have spacing.

    However, on the other production tenant, there is no spacing between paragraphs.

    The difference I can see in the HTML output on the page, is the text web part wrapper <div> (on the two tenants where it works as expected) has an extra CSS class "uniformSpacingForElements".

    For some reason, if I create a text web part on the other production tenant (where there is no spacing), that CSS class is missing from the wrapper <div>.

    Any ideas?

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  3. matt howell 3,511 Reputation points
    2023-09-05T16:43:17+00:00

    It looks like it hasn't been fixed properly - instead of addressing this with a css change, they just stuffed an additional empty p tag after a closing p tag. So it's really more of a hack than a fix, and since the additional p tag has no class, this could cause issues down the road if Msft ever makes changes to the styling governing p tags.

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  4. Anonymous
    2023-08-23T21:46:39+00:00

    Still seeing the behavior in my tenant - for some pages. But this is an old developer tenant, maybe it didn't get the "update", yet?

    Hoping for the best.

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