Quill Editor can't do br line breaks

[pdclark]

Problem

As reported here: https://wordpress.org/support/topic/quill-editor-does-not-support-hyperlinks-or-line-breaks/

• Quill editor does not have button for inserting links enabled — fix for this in PR Quill: Add link button. #6221 .
• Quill editor converts line-breaks (<br/> / shift-return) to paragraphs (<p> / return). Possibly related: https://podswp.slack.com/archives/C02SVLHQF/p1634763507119200 , but adding remove_filter( 'pods_template_content', 'pods_clean_linebreaks' ); doesn't seem to resolve the problem.
• Quill editor support for HTML view #6224

Proposed Solution

• For links, Quill takes an argument that can be added.
• For line breaks, the code remove_filter( 'pods_template_content', 'pods_clean_linebreaks' ); doesn't resolve the problem.
• May need help for someone like @zrothauser to configure an HTML button, if that's desired... see https://github.com/benwinding/quill-html-edit-button

Screenshots / Screencast

[sc0ttkclark]

For <br> tags, this is an interesting solution: zenoamaro/react-quill#513 (comment)

Related: slab/quill#1074 and slab/quill#3161

[sc0ttkclark]

It's possible that our best bet may be to advise people that the Quill editor itself only supports <p> tags, it does not support line breaks <br> and that's that.

[sc0ttkclark]

For some reason the Quill people are anti-<br> tag and they expect <p> tags to have no margins on them. But not in the WP world.

I'm open to setting up an alternative WYSIWYG editor option too, a bit bummed that Quill failed hard in this spot.