First of all, thanks for your endless patience !
Looking at the output of the broweser console we have this TinyMCE:
majorVersion: “4”, minorVersion: “9.11”, releaseDate: “2020-07-13”
Doesn’t look very recent..
WP itself is the latest version (6.9.1)
Looking at the source of our admin page I identified two plugins that inserted extra css into the tinymce editor. I disabled them, now it looks like I have the pristine WP tinymce setup here.
I deleted the text block inquestion and re added it – no success.
I am running 6.7.0.2, too.
We have the standard Twenty Twenty-Five theme installed.
The only plugin I could think of right now is the Classic Editor plugin.
Otherwise we don’t have many plugins that are layout heavy.
Indeed Ultimate Membership Pro, Super Store Finder, The Events Calendar. That’s it.
But they are not engaged in editing a simple page…
Is there no way I can see the tinymce config somewhere?
The thing is that when I submit the entry it is saved as
<ul>\r\n\t<br/><li>Topic 1</li>\r\n\t<br/><li>Topic 2</li>\r\n<br/></ul>
and the linebreaks are parsed in the browser, resulting in huge gaps between the list entries.
Try it.
I can possibly remedy that by adding a style to all LI elements but for all practival purposes the BR tag shouldn’t be there.
So if you have an idea how I could tell the editor not to do that I’d be happy 🙂
I tried everything actually.
I typed the two lines into the text editor and added the tags there myself.
Result as above.
Then I typed the two lines into the Visual editor and used the list button.
Same result.
The only way to not have those br tags is to use the text editor and write everything in one line, including the tags.
I believe the editor always adds line breaks for newlines as default behaviour.
Normally I’d say that’s OK – but not in UL containers….
Is there any way to turn that off? I cannot expect my cleint to use a text editor and/or strip all newlines from his lists 🙂
