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It's not my site - I'd just like to arm myself with some plausible suggestions before attempting to contact their IT team. I have a little knowledge of html, php and css, but the understanding of javascript and ajax etc. tends to elude me (it's an age thing ). (Wot - no spell-checker? )

Thanks for the reply. I can see the pairs of <br>s when using a web-dev tool like Firebug, but not when viewing the page source through the browser's context menu. So is the behavior of revealing the the <br>s likely to be controlled by javascript?

My local online newspaper has recently changed it's format and has introduced a few irritations: An article's comment form is restricted to 50px in height, even though you can type in a maximum of 4,000 characters, but not a big problem as I believe this can be easily fixed by changing 'resize: none' to 'resize: vertical' in the CSS declarations for that element. What I cant figure is this; many posters punctuate longer comments with line breaks for readability, but on submitting a comment the line breaks get removed. But, if there are more than 11 comments to the article a button appears - "View all Comments", and If clicked on all comments appear plus any missing line breaks in the previous 10 comments. Can anyone explain why/how this behaviour happens? Example article and comments (sorry for the intrusive ads if you're not using an adblocker) Thanks for any info.