[1-poem-excerpt] Hi, We have a poetry forum. In a single post, it looks normal like a poem, but the excerpt display view becomes a paragraph or combined text style on the homepage or category listings. The original post views are lost. I tried different things, different themes or the “topic list…

Hello, I think you can try it with white-space: pre-line it will keeps the topic line breaks in excerpt. :slightly_smiling_face: Add this to Common > CSS .topic-list { a.topic-excerpt { white-space: pre-line; } } [Screenshot 2023-02-05 at 1.43.46] [Screenshot 2023-02-05 at 1.45.06]

You might check the value of SiteSetting traditional markdown linebreaks. The description reads: “Use traditional linebreaks in Markdown, which require two trailing spaces for a linebreak.” That is a bit confusing, but I think that you have this checked and you want it unchecked. Or maybe I’m confu…

Thanks Jay, I tried but it didn’t work. I don’t know how but in the excerpt it combines all the sentences into one paragraph

Hi Proje DEV! :slight_smile: Are you using Topic List Excerpts ? I believe you need a plugin if you want to override it to keep line breaks. I think his is what would need to be overridden: discourse/app/controllers/topics_controller.rb at main · discourse/discourse · GitHub More specifically, th…

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ProjeDEV (Proje DEV) February 5, 2023, 12:58am 6

Thanks Don. It works

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