Text box/Paragraph spacing issue
June 10, 2016 12:00 AM
I've encountered this once or twice before, but now it seems to happen all of the time.
When I have a text box with more than one line of text, the space between the bottom (last) line and the second to last is larger than the space between the other lines in the same text box.
I have tried adding a line feed at the end of each line, or not having it - the result is the same.
I even took a box where there were 4 lines (the problem being between the 3rd and 4th) and deleted the 4th line. The problem then shifted to between the 2nd and 3rd (still last and next-to-last lines)
Everything looks good in Lectora. The problem is only visible once published. I can see it on IE and Chrome.
Is this a bug? Is there a solution?
Discussion (10)
Yes, and it doesn't seem to matter what combination I use. If the box has 4 lines of text, the space between 3 and 4 is disproportionate to the others. I've tried with wrapped text, with undefined
There is a difference between soft break and hard break (enter, shift+enter and just wrapping a long line).
Lectora places each line of text in a span inside its own paragraph. Line-height determines the amount of white space between each line. Lectora does not put a line-height on the last paragraph (line of text) unless you are using paragraph spacing or there is another setting I am unaware of (anyone?). It sounds as if Lectora is putting a line-height on the last paragraph (line of text) and it is larger than the rest.
If you do not want to post a sample then look open the developers console by pressing F12 while viewing in Chrome. There's an icon to the left of "Elements" in the menu bar that looks like a box with an arrow in it (far left). Click this and then click the last line in your text box. This will select the span with the text in it in the "Elements" section of the console. Right above that is the paragraph (starts with undefined
Jennifer, why does Lectora put each line of text in its own span inside its own paragraph?
I can't reproduce the issue. For me Lectora creates a new paragraph after a hard break [Enter]. There's no new paragraph after a line break [Shift] + [Enter]. A new span is created only for text with a different formatting. I've tested with typing text directly in Lectora and pasting from MS Word and MS PowerPoint both formatted [Ctrl] + [v] and unformatted [Ctrl] + [Shift] + [v]. "Line Spacing" and "Space after paragraph" are correctly assigned to all paragraphs and spans.
Tim
Did you copy the text? Sometimes when you paste (instead of paste unformatted) you'll bring over phantom spaces from the original document. We did some significant updates and upgrades to the spaces process in the last feature release. I'd love to be able to see the files where your experiencing the issue so I can share it with the development team.
Yes, Tim, that's what I'm talking about thanks for clarifying. I seem to get hard breaks when I paste text, formatted or not formatted. It also gives a span for each paragraph even if there isn't different formatting applied.
The only way I was able to re-create KFT's effect was to add a declaration of line-height to the last span and make it more than the others. I'd like to see a sample because, like you, I tried multiple ways get Lecotra to do it on it's own. I also would like to know why hard breaks are handled this way. Is there a benefit?
I had this problem a couple of times. The workaround I use is to enter again after the faulty last line of text, but I wouldn't mind having this problem solved with the next Lectora update ;) I usually discover it after finishing the course design and uploading it to our test environment, so I'm not sure if it was with copied or typed text.
Someone really needs to post a sample or how is support going to troubleshoot?
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