wintersoldierfell:

lingua-mortua:

Oh god, please delete the extra spaces between paragraphs in your fics on AO3. Please. I know it takes ages and it’s really annoying to do, but it is an immediate backspace away from your story if I’m on mobile because I get one sentence per page and acres of white space.

I can help! There is an easy way to do this if you have a word processor! Instructions with screencaps follow:

1. Before you paste your text into the Ao3 text box, make sure “Rich Text” is clicked.

2. Paste your story into the Ao3 text box (like you usually do)

3. Instead of hitting post, go back and click “HTML.” Your story will suddenly show the HTML markup, including all those pesky extra spaces:

4. Open a new, blank document in your word processor. Copy all the text from the Ao3 window and paste it there.

5. Do a find / replace for all the lines that say “<p> </p>”, replacing them with nothing.

6. Now you have a document with HTML markup and no extra carriage returns.

7. Copy this and open up your Ao3 window again. MAKE SURE “HTML” IS CLICKED. Paste your nice new text into this window.

8. When you click “Rich Text” again, your story will look beautiful and have no extra spaces!!!!!!

9. Now you can post your story!

10. Congratulate yourself on your amazingness, win $100,000,000,000,000, become best friends with Idris Elba, roll around with a pile of happy puppies