how to stop removing br tags

Where and how are you entering the BR tags? I just tried this in an Editable Text web part in the Source view of CKEditor and the BR tags remained untouched when I saved the page.

I'm doing it in the code, but it only seems to remove certain ones. If have a couple divs that is floating right and left and I have to br tags before them so the image in the div shows on a new line. but for what ever reason whenever leave the source code and strips the second br tag out.

You are using the CKEditor, right? (WYSIWYG Editor in the admin?)

If so, CKEditor removes empty elements. Say you have <span><i class="icon" /></span> CKEditor will remove that whole thing. YOu need to have something like <span><i class="icon">&nbsp;</i></span>

A non breaking space will stop it from being removed. It usually doesn't remove it the first time you save, its the second time. I think it also will remove duplicates, that might be why your BR's are being removed, but I usually type my code in notepad and paste in the editor and save once, and it's usually good.

I think you can disable that in the config file, but I forget which setting.

building a new site and getting the same issue. It seems to happen when I have 2 breaks before a div. I can remove it and save the page in source view but the second it reloads it adds the nbsp tags back and removes a the second br tag.... really weird.