line break converter has stopped working -- what have i done??!

Posted by goosey on December 15, 2006 at 3:57am

For some bizarre reason the line break converter appears to have stopped working on my site.

So paragraph  breaks are no longer appearing in my posted content. I've checked my drupal database tables directly and sure enough, the new comments/nodes don't have any  tags in them.

Any idea how this could be? I've been tearing my hair out trying to work out what I've changed, but can't find anything.

thanks, desperate! (a.k.a. goosey)

ps. I'm using filtered html as the input type, and the line break converter is switched on ("Line and paragraphs break automatically")

pps. Some possible clues:
* If I manually put in the  tags then everything works. Obviously my users aren't going to do that though.
* when i switch on the tinymce module I get paragraph breaks appearing correctly, but when I "disable rich text" I get the same problem occurring

Comments

Hmmmm, it seems that

Posted by goosey on December 15, 2006 at 4:45am

Hmmmm, it seems that  tags generated by the linebreak filter are always generated on the fly, not stored in the database. Is that correct?

Linebreak filter not working!

Posted by erik_osaka on January 27, 2007 at 3:10am

I have the linebreak converter turned on in filtered HTML, and have set roles so that everyone can use this filter type, but when content is submitted no linereaks or paragraphs are created! I did a view source on a node and sure enough, I could find no paragraph tags where they should have been. Can anyone offer a clue??

Oh yeah, running drupal 4.7

i am having the same problem

Posted by juicestain on February 3, 2007 at 8:04pm

me too. it has me stumped. anyone else?

Me too

Posted by bdeegee on February 22, 2007 at 7:26pm

Line Break Converter isn't working for me either. Drupal 5.1.

when i swapped the weighting...

Posted by zzJames on March 8, 2007 at 7:29am

mine stopped working until I went to

administer
input formats

and hit the configure option for filtered HTML
then hit the rearrange tab

changed the html filter to 1
changed the line break converted to 10

then it started to work on my site.

I have the same problem

Posted by jadams1 on March 8, 2007 at 1:28pm

I have the same problem (5.1) and this did not fix the problem. I recently added the heading plugin for TinyMce. Is that the case with anyone else?

Set weight of "HTML filter" smaller than "Line break converter"

Posted by astra on April 3, 2007 at 12:58pm

I got the same problem that "Line break converter" doesn't work on my Drupal 5.1 site.

But:
- go to adminster > Site configuration > Input formats;
- click link configure to open the page of "Filtered HTML input format";
- switch to the Rearrange page;
- set the weight of "HTML filter" is smaller than "Line break converter", for example, 1 for "HTML filter" and 2 for "Line break converter";
- save configuration.

"Line break converter" works now.

if using cck

Posted by zzJames on April 28, 2007 at 5:56pm

if you are using cck nodes with a free text field make sure you have 'filtered text' checked as an option in the field definition

admiinister/content/content-types/your-content-type/then find the field and click configure

Thank you!

Posted by luke76 on July 13, 2008 at 7:53am

For bringing an end to hours of headscratching over this - should have realised this!

Thought I had something fundamentally wrong with my site, when I just needed to set 'filtered text' instead of the default 'Plain text' on my cck node fields of more than one line.

Thanks. It works for me.

Posted by parka on February 17, 2009 at 3:35pm

Thanks. It works for me.