More tag - how do I remove preceding <br>?

Question

Can anyone advise on how I can remove the preceding <br> tag when a post's "read more..." tag is generated?

Any advice appreciated!

This is the code that's generated -

<p>blah blah blah blah<br>
 <a class="more-link" href="blahblahblahblah"> …Read more</a></p>

It's that annoying little
I want rid of, so the "read more" is on the same line...!

Check out this answer of mine on "more span making trouble" question, I am not sure if you are referring to same issue as that question.
Thanks for your reply, but the code being generated for me isn't in a span, it just has <br> then an anchor tag for the read more. Should there be a span around it?
@Cordial: Please add the fragment of your theme that inserts the more link to your question. Please name the theme you are using.
@Cordial does adding blank lines around more tag, as described in that answer, in editor help?

Denis Belousov · Answer 1 · 2010-12-27 01:05:56Z

up vote 2 down vote

Can you show us your generated source code with more tag and code which you use for this?

UPDATE

Try this:

function clear_br($excerpt){
return str_replace("<br>","", $excerpt);
}
add_filter('the_excerpt', 'clear_br');

Paste this code in your functions.php

edited Dec 27 '10 at 1:05

answered Dec 20 '10 at 13:43

Denis Belousov
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Norcross · Answer 2 · 2010-12-24 15:54:01Z

You'll wanna make a filter in your functions.php file. Scroll about halfway down on this codex page and they'll show two separate methods.

Also, make sure your existing functions file doesn't already have something like this, which could be adding the line break in the first place.

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