If you have recently updated to Magento 1.4x you may have noticed that your descritions which were previously formatted to include line breaks suddenly show up as a single paragraph. It looks like this was done to iron out a few bugs with the new WYSIWYG features but leaves those doing it the old fashioned way in a bit of a pickle.


The fix is quite easy.  You just need to edit a copy of description.phtml

(/app/design/frontend/default/{YOUR-TEMPLATE}/template/catalog/product/view/description.phtml)  << don’t mess with the original make a parallel theme.

Change: 

<?php echo $_helper->productAttribute($_product, nl2br($_product->getShortDescription()), 'short_description') ?>

to 

<?php echo $_helper->productAttribute($_product, $_product->getShortDescription(), 'short_description') ?>

i.e. your just putting back the PHP function to convert newline to BRs.

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