“When I print the back of my card, the text formatting isn’t preserved—line breaks and spacing are removed and everything runs together.” What do I do

Anki Card Design
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Text Formating.

When I have a perfect format in the back card, the format collapse into a paragraph that is not the format that i created. How can I get it to format just as the card is created?

2

Are you using a type-answer field, that strips all the formatting out?

If not, there are 3 Styling and formatting places that could be coming from, and they interact.

  1. The styling for your note type, where classes of formatting can be defined overall for all of the cards, or for specific cards, or specific parts of cards.
  2. The card templates themselves call those classes defined in styling, but they can also contain formatting for specific field replacements.
  3. Formatting in the text of a specific note is controlled in the note editor by the editing toolbar. You might need to open the HTML view (click < > above the field) to see it in the field.

Where is your formatting and what is going on at the other two places?

Once you figure out what needs to change, if you need more specific help with the HTML or CSS in your templates/Styling, you can post it here – as text (not a screenshot), and in a
```

preformatted-text/code-block (by putting backticks above/below)

```
– and folks can probably help you with what needs to change.

3

I think I’m all set now. It worked on my laptop properly and now that it’s synced up with my laptop the type that seems to be working, so I’m not sure the reason but for now I will hold the course and monitor. Thank you so much.

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Yes, at first I put type in answer, but then I changed it back to basic

5

Hi,

This truly seems very confusing to me.

I paste something like this

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And the answer comes out like this.

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Which is not too bad but if you get a complex answer, it gets all mushed up rather than in a format originally placed.

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Do you really intend to type in complex formatted answers with all the linebreaks and numbering all the time? And how do you imagine the typing errors should be highlighted on incorrect answers with full formatting?

Making several cloze typing cards seems like much more suitable choice for such material. But if you really want to type it all in on every review, you can simply add a separate {{Back}} replacement to the back side of the template to be displayed alongside the typed version.

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You’re using a type-answer field in your template – which strips out all formatting. It does a character-by-character comparison, so it’s designed for short answers where spelling matters. You shouldn’t use it for this.

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Something is still weird. I cannot use any of the tools like bullet points.
The update comes and seems to lead to reinstalling it here.

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Then this shows up.

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So, I would like to use it but seem to keep running into road blocks.