https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41965

--- Comment #7 from James Forrester <[email protected]> 2012-11-24 
02:16:40 UTC ---
The "weird blank paragraph" is what a "slug" - a place in the editing interface
where the user can insert some content. It needs to be there so that users can
successfully place content between blocks, but it isn't an entire line
(depending on your User Agent) - once you start entering content, it expands to
be the same size as a "real" paragraph, however.

An example of this is nested lists - in MediaWiki you can jump straight down to
a second level of lists, but in HTML editing you still need to give the user
some way to edit the list they're not in. This is why this wikitext:

Hello
** There

... produces this in the VisualEditor:

Hello
* 
** There

... the middle "line" is a "slug" that will disappear once you save, but if you
need to insert text that's where you can go.

We're considering coming up with a little icon, perhaps a little like the
cursor character, to make it clear that it's an insertion point rather than an
actual blank line, but we're at early days yet.

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