Recently I discovered that Microsoft have created a better text editor for Blogger than Blogger has done. Which seems nuts! Despite my reservations about using Microsoft products if there is a free alternative available, it is much much easier to use! In fact I love it.
At first I was unable to create a carriage return! Even typing the source code </p><p> made no difference at all. [Shift]+[Enter] worked fine to create <br>. After a lot of Googling, I discovered what was wrong. Not obvious and not well documented. My css template had this code in it:
.post-body p {
/* Fix bug in IE5/Win with italics in posts */
margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px;
padding: 1px 0px 1px 0px;
display: inline; /* to fix floating-ads wrapping problem in IE */
height: 1%;
overflow: visible;
}
Since no-one uses IE5 any longer (!), it was safe to take that code out, and Live Writer now works perfectly.
