# 3.1 Text Editing RETURN key behaivour **URL:** \ **Category:** Feature Request\ **Created:** [October 9, 2017, 11:38am UTC](https://forum.pinegrow.com/t/3-1-text-editing-return-key-behaivour/1304 "2017-10-09T11:38:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![paulmarshall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/958977/32.png) [@paulmarshall](https://forum.pinegrow.com/u/paulmarshall)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2017, 11:38am UTC](https://forum.pinegrow.com/t/3-1-text-editing-return-key-behaivour/1304/1 "2017-10-09T11:38:55Z")
Version 3.1 - "Improved text editing Pressing Enter when editing a P or a heading will break the element at that point in two elements." Why is this? This is a terrible idea. Ok, it is useful sometimes so it could be an option by using Shift - Enter. Most of the time when editing text I just want a line feed - thats what br is for - and thats what RETURN should do by default. Often blocks of text are pasted in from another text editor but need a bit of tidying with line feeds and white space. Worse it is buggy. If there is an attribute like bold or italic then RETURN does nothing. Sometimes pressing backspace/delete deletes the entire previous element, and it cant be got back with undo. Sometimes I’m left wih “BREAKHERE” embedded. and sometimes odd div’s are inserted inside the p paragraph. Bizarre and too clever, please go back to a simple text editing system but make it foolproof for fools like me! ---
**Author:** ![SureWeb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/71e660/32.png) [@SureWeb](https://forum.pinegrow.com/u/SureWeb)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2017, 10:22am UTC](https://forum.pinegrow.com/t/3-1-text-editing-return-key-behaivour/1304/2 "2017-10-10T10:22:08Z")
From my experience with text editors the standard behaviour is return creates a paragraph and shift+return creates a line break. ---
**Author:** ![paulmarshall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/958977/32.png) [@paulmarshall](https://forum.pinegrow.com/u/paulmarshall)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2017, 2:26pm UTC](https://forum.pinegrow.com/t/3-1-text-editing-return-key-behaivour/1304/3 "2017-10-10T14:26:32Z")
That would be perfectly fine but it doesnt happen here. ---
**Author:** ![paulmarshall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/958977/32.png) [@paulmarshall](https://forum.pinegrow.com/u/paulmarshall)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2017, 11:41am UTC](https://forum.pinegrow.com/t/3-1-text-editing-return-key-behaivour/1304/4 "2017-10-11T11:41:35Z")
Another idea would be to have on the menu that pops up in text edit mode a button to insert a br at the cursor (just as it inserts b or i) and another button which creates a new paragraph at the point where the cursor is. If the developers are serious about making Pinegrow into the best web editor they will consider these time saving ideas.