Inger, to make sure that the problem I'm having is a VSD issue and has nothing to do with my website, I have created a brand new two page web site in VSD 7 that explains and illustrates my problem in detail. I will submit this to CC support for them to evaluate.

Eric, could you please tell me what other method exists for creating a space between paragraphs besides the Enter key? I'm sorry, but I don't know of any other method.

Tom

Correction, Eric. The only other method I know of is to put each paragraph in its own text frame. But why would anyone want to do that? It's much more involved and will tend to result in uneven spacing between paragraphs!

Tom

Make a individual text box for each paragraph.

I can replicate your text spacing by hitting enter at the end of my paragraphs. This is going to cause the issue your seeing. Use the grid lines to make placement precise.

Eric is correct, that is how it should be handled when adding text. Each paragraph should be its own text object.

You have got to be kidding me, Scott! VSD isn't capable of making the spacing between paragraphs the same height as the font that's being used in the text frame??? This is an issue for VSD's code to handle. Why should I have to do all the extra work of taking each paragraph of text from every article on my website and placing them into separate text frames? How absurd!!!!!!! Plus, doing this will make it very difficult if not impossible for my visitors to peform a text selection operation on an article without selecting any other text that's next to the article on the same page!! And I thought VSD was supposed to make website design easier than writing HTML. This is truly unbelievable!

Tom

Tom we are only assuming that is the real problem here. J and I both have asked you for the source files so we can really look into what is going on.

So bite the bullet and press the PUBLISH button and send us a link to your website.

Tom, It would be of great value to yourself and everyone else trying to help you to publish your web page and post a link.
If you don't want to publish you work yet that's fine so here's a possible work around. Change the text color to match your background for the area between the paragraphs. Now type a character of your choice to take up the space.

Scott, my website isn't quite ready to be published, and I don't even have a web host. Besides, if what you and Eric said is correct about each paragraph of text requiring its own text frame, publishing my website and sending you the source files isn't going to solve anything because you'll simply tell me that most of my text frames have more than one paragraph in them. There's also no point in me sending you the two-page website that I created today in VSD 7 to illustrate the problem I'm having because all of the text frames in that website contain multiple paragraphs as well.

So, it appears to me that my only recourse at this point is to bite the bullet and recreate all of my text frames with only one paragraph in each of them. That doesn't appeal to me one bit because it's gonna take several full days of work at the least. The thing that really irritates me, though, is that I didn't encounter this problem in VSD 5.9.4 or VSD 6.06. Why is it showing up in VSD 7? If this problem had shown up in 5.9.4, I would have complained about it two and a half years ago when I first started working on this website and only had a few pages of text frames to fix. Now I have about 35 pages of text frames to fix, and most of my pages have at least ten paragraphs of text on them (some have even more). So, if there's another way to solve this problem that won't consume so much of my time, I'd sure like to know about it. What about the CSS line height issue that J mentioned above. Would that work?

Tom

Eric,

I didn't see your post until after I posted mine. Inserting a spacebar space on each line between each paragraph is a workaround that I had mentioned before that won't be as time-consuming as changing all of my text frames, but I'd rather do a simple global fix (like changing the CSS line height, if that's possible) if I could. Inserting a colored character on each blank line between each paragraph would be a challenge because my background is a gradient color that gets progressively darker from top to bottom. I do appreciate the suggestion, though.

Tom