# Where's the preview screen? Why the double-spacing?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-the-preview-screen-why-the-double-spacing/1021487>\
**Category:** Site Feedback\
**Created:** [July 29, 2025, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-the-preview-screen-why-the-double-spacing/1021487 "2025-07-29T22:24:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\
**Post date:** [July 31, 2025, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-the-preview-screen-why-the-double-spacing/1021487/21 "2025-07-31T20:09:14Z")

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> [@Johnny\_L.A](#):
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> But the quote box isn’t as nice, and the font isn’t either.

Hit “quote” and start typing. It puts your words in the quote box.

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**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\
**Post date:** [July 31, 2025, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-the-preview-screen-why-the-double-spacing/1021487/22 "2025-07-31T20:17:56Z")

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Yes. I want to type _outside_ of the Quote box. (Without having to click outside of it.)

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**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\
**Post date:** [July 31, 2025, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-the-preview-screen-why-the-double-spacing/1021487/23 "2025-07-31T20:32:21Z")

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The button at the top of the edit box with the [“] icon between the chain link (insert url) icon and the upload icon works exactly like it always did since we came to Discourse. It just inserts a \\> symbol and leaves the cursor next to it so you can type up (or paste in) something you’re quoting from a source other than another Dope post.

If you’re clicking that [“] button for another use case that is wrong and was always wrong.

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**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\
**Post date:** [July 31, 2025, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-the-preview-screen-why-the-double-spacing/1021487/24 "2025-07-31T21:40:51Z")

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> [@RTFirefly](#):
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> testing
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> the
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> (maybe)
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> double
> 
> spacing
> 
> how  
> about  
> now?  
> yep,  
> better.

So, what’s the exact remedy?

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**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\
**Post date:** [July 31, 2025, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-the-preview-screen-why-the-double-spacing/1021487/25 "2025-07-31T22:23:40Z")

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By design in HTML paragraphs have some vertical whitespace between them. Not necessarily typewriter-like “double spacing”, but some.

If you want two separate paragraphs of separately word-wrapping text with no extra vertical space between, toggle the editor from **A** WYSIWYG mode to **M** Markdown mode and it’ll work like you’re used to. In **M** mode you can add or remove blank lines as you please.

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