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?

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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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
    2023-06-01T12:42:10+00:00

    Hi,

    I found this very same issue. There seems to be a workaround: Create a new page from Settings menu -> New page and select Template. The text editor on pages created this way seems to work as expected. If I create a new page from page toolbar -> New Page, the text editor on these pages have the paragraph spacing issue. This happens even with same page templates.

    This could be a workaround until some real fix or guidance is published.

    Best Regards,

    Kari

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  2. Anonymous
    2023-04-19T16:24:02+00:00

    On my ticket, I was just now told "This issue has already gained the attention of our senior engineer." That's encouraging.

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  3. Anonymous
    2023-04-17T15:50:46+00:00

    I was on a call with Microsoft Support for 1.75 hours today, and I think this issue is going to be escalated to the product dev team (fingers crossed). I have directed them to this thread, so when I hear anything I will update you all here. Keep adding your clicks to "have the same issue" and we'll see how it goes.

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  4. Anonymous
    2023-04-17T15:35:18+00:00

    Same problem here, started today.

    • "Old" <p> had the ".rte--read.cke_editable.uniformSpacingForElements" class with margin-bottom: 1.4em;,
    • "New" <p> got ".rte--read.cke_editable.zeroSpacing" class with margin-bottom: 0;

    Really need a way to fix it of the manually edit the value.

    Thanks

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