how remove <p></p> tags automatically generated in <div class=”entry”>

Currently I use a filter and some reg-expressions to get ride of the -tags, but this doesn′t work very well. It would be nice if there is an easy solution for this.

Just out of curiosity, why would want to remove the markup (e.g. ) added (via hooks) by WP the_content() ?

pidge –

I could see why. Personally, I hate “p” tags. It’s a personal preference, though – and I know you *should* use “p” tags – but for soem reason, they bug the crap out of me. I prefer to separate my paragraphs with
tags, and place my other content (like titles, dates, author links, etc.) in whatever way I see fit – like span tags or divs, something like that. Sometimes those “p” tags just get in the way and drive me batty.

But again, that’s a personal preference!

But on to the question at hand: I don’t know where you go in the files to remove the “p” tags, but you *can* use CSS to work around them. All you have to do is style them in the styles.css file to your liking – so even though it’s a PITA (again, personal view!) it *is* something you can work around and get it to do what you want. ??

Hope that helps a little bit!

The tags are probably added by a filter – wpautop

See https://www.uberdose.com/journal/archives/2004/07/17/mime-wordpress-plugin/ for an idea on how to disable it on a post by post basis – extreme but wpautop gets in the way of correct xhtml many times.

Doodlebee,

Thanks for the response re: a reason. (I thought it may have been a due to a technical issue).

There are some theories out there (can’t remember where I read it), but using structural mark up seems to help in the SEO side (easy for the crawler/indexer code to interpret your content, maybe?). Also helps with validation and non-traditional browsers/webpage readers (i.e. for Accessibility such as for the visually impaired)

Like you said, modifying the style sheet is a good option. The newlines are converted in the wpautotp function (as ebusiness pointed out). One could modify that function to use div tags. (to wrap newlines).

Better yet, add a new plug-in that converts all para tags to div tags (not sure if one exists) during presentation.

Structual, sematic markup does help a crawler to interpret your content.

So you *should* use the p-tag for paragraphs and <div> for blocks only and <span> only for elements that stand out of the usual coding.

to answer pidge’s curiosity, the reason was to have posts displayed inline.
( https://www.tikimatic.com/dev/refs/screen/ )
so as doodlebee pointed out , the easiest way is to CSS that – what i finally did.

btw thank you for mentioning wpautop, i’ll dive into it when i’ve got time.

how do u use css to negate the P tag? it was suggested, but i do not know how to do this

“how do u use css to negate the P tag? “

p {
display: inline;
}

https://www.w3schools.com/css/pr_class_display.asp

If you still want to disable autop for whatever reason (although it’s rarely a good idea), here’s a plugin to make it simple: https://ottodestruct.com/wpstuff/disableautop.zip

Thanks 0tto42 1000x ??

Just a clarification why I needed this badly. With P elements wrapping DIVs I wasn’t able to validate the xhtml.

BEFORE OTTO42:


<div class="photo">
P<img alt="img" src="img.jpg" />P
</div>
<div class="txt">
Psome txtP
</div>
P<br class="clear" />
</div>


AFTER OTTO42:


<div class="photo">
<img alt="img" src="img.jpg" />
</div>
<div class="txt">
some txt
</div>
<br class="clear" />
</div>


Note the opening P before BR in first example without closing P tag.