[FAQ] Why does my post have lots of empty space in it?

[EDIT]
this post was for CN versions that not have wysiwygs.
If you don't use the wysiwyg this post might still be usefull.

A common problem for new users is when they post an item that has both plain text and html. Cutenews works in a way that converts all new lines in the textbox where you enter news to <br /> tags.

Say you have the following post:



By default, this will be the code cutenews outputs when showing the news:



Now, that'd add lots of excess newlines you didn't intend to have in your post. To solve this problem, you should make sure you do the following when using using html in your news: Click the [options] link and make sure the checkbox about "convert newlines to <br />" isn't checked while "use html in this post is checked".

That should remove all the excess whitespace, but you'll now also have to place the non-html text inside <p> tags, ie "<p>Today I went out fishing, here's some photos from the trip:</p>"