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1edwinbcn
Jun 24, 2009, 12:37 am

White lines are added to the Comments field in "Your books"

The data entered on the "Edit book" page are:
Beijing: Bookmooch
3 mei 2009
42

And now it looks like this:

Beijing: Bookmooch

3 mei 2009

42

I cannot remove the white lines by editing the original field (and I would not want to do it for my 6,000+ collection.

Please restore the original format asap.

2jimroberts
Jun 24, 2009, 8:43 am

I get the same, it also applies to the review field.
(FF2/Linux)

3civitas
Jun 27, 2009, 10:15 am

I've been seeing the same problem for the last few days - a new blank line is inserted between every existing line in the comment.

When I edit the field to remove the blank lines and then reload the entire page, the blank lines are reinserted.

OS: Windows XP Pro, SP3
Browsers:
Chrome 2.0
Opera Opera/9.80
IE 8.0



4SJaneDoe
Edited: Jun 27, 2009, 2:23 pm

I've been seeing the same (or at least a very similar) problem in Common Knowledge fields lately. Every time I put in a {br} it automatically adds another (so there's a blank line where there should only be a line break.) The last time I saw it was in the Epigraph and Dedication of this book.
Oddly, until recently, whenever I wanted a blank line and tried to put in two breaks right next to each other, the second would be automatically deleted when I saved the field.

I'm on Windows XP, FF3.

5jimroberts
Jun 27, 2009, 2:31 pm

#3: civitas
In my case at least, my catalog fields are still OK, as I can see on the Edit Book page. My comments still have just the beaks I put in, but when LT displays them in the catalog or Details, it interprets every break as two breaks.

6Proclus
Jul 2, 2009, 4:53 pm

Not vitally important, but I too would like to see this corrected.

7timspalding
Jul 3, 2009, 2:17 pm

I'm working on the review, comment, talk spacing issues. If you want to post problems, I'm all ears.

8jimroberts
Jul 3, 2009, 2:39 pm

Reviews and comments are now showing correctly for me in all the places I've thought of looking at - catalog, review page, detail page.

9karamazow
Jul 3, 2009, 3:50 pm

seems suddenly OK again?!
whoever did that, thanks...!

10edwinbcn
Jul 3, 2009, 11:11 pm

Thanks for fixing it.

11civitas
Jul 4, 2009, 7:46 am

Comments are back to normal.

Thanks.

12SJaneDoe
Jul 14, 2009, 11:29 am

This problem is still not fixed for CK fields. (see Message 4) It's still adding extra line breaks.