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Read-Aloud Text Box Not Respecting Hard Returns

This is a bug that I've come across a few times when typing up text that is meant to be read aloud to the players. In official WOTC books, this read-aloud text is typically identified by a special text box with white text and a white line running vertically along the left margin, so that's what I use when typing up text for the same reason. However, and seemingly randomly, these text boxes will not respect hard returns to end the text box and will continue infinitely. Normally, when the enter key is pressed twice without a character entry, it ends the text box and continues in the normal text. However, it occasionally just continues the text box no matter how many times you press the enter key. A while ago, I did find a weird fix for this, but I have forgotten it lol. Just thought I'd put this out there as a bug report because this text box issue evades backspacing, highlight+remove font style, inserting other text boxes to replace it, and inserting tables to replace it. It's surprisingly resilient lol.
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Gauss
Forum Champion
Hi Jacket,  Can you supply a screenshot so we are on the same page? (So to speak)
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yeah I'll reply to this when the bug happens again, but it's hard to see what's wrong unless a short video shows the issue. A screenshot will only show the white text box.
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keithcurtis
Forum Champion
Marketplace Creator
API Scripter
Hi Jacket! This weird trick fixes a formatting fluke of that blockquote style that may or may not help you. Frequently, the blockquote will format in a larger font. The trick is to hit return-backspace-return. It does something to the html tags behind the scenes that fixes the formatting. I haven't run into the specific issue you are describing but it might be worth a try.
Here is the issue in image form. Keithcurtis is right, using a combination of return+backspace+return does stop the problem. I also found another solution, which is to place the cursor one line above the furthest empty line, backspace, place the cursor on the furthest empty line, then return. Essentially, the text box should normally end if return is pressed twice, but occasionally it causes a series of empty fields with each press and does not end the text box. It's nothing major, but a little annoying I guess.