</p> tag before </blockquote>

This is also causing me a lot of problems. I’m not sure what to do with quicktags.js and am concerned that if I just add an opening and closing p element to lines 63 and 64 I will potentially cause more issues.

In my mind it boils down to TinyMCE refusing to show the p element when in code view.

So, if I attempt to force the correct behaviour for a blockquote, eg:

<blockquote>
<p>First line of blockquote</p>
<p>Second Line</p>
</blockquote>

It persists in reformatting this to a variety of things, dependent on whether I save instantly or switch to the visual editor.

Usually returning to code view shows something like:

<blockquote>First line of blockquote

Second Line
</blockquote>

and this renders in a variety of ways. It’s quite frustrating and whether I end up with the extra </p> or not, I am still getting validation errors that make it clear that the text within the blockquote must be contained within a block level element, such as a p or div element. I attempted to add a div element, but again TinyMCE persists in removing these and making life a little more difficult.

The <p> tag inside blockquote is a valid markup.

schematic blockquote should look like the following

<p>excerpt</p>

You could used CSS to make the paragraph flow inside blockquote

blockquote p{display:inline}


Hi Chaoskaizer

Possibly I didn’t make my point entirely clear. I can’t remember all of the problems that I was having before, but it was primarily that in certain situations WordPress wasn’t putting the correct p elements in place.

Items inside a <blockquote> must be contained by block level elements. I think the problem that I was finding was that WordPress was not putting the first sentence of a blockquote in a p element. Rendering something like:

<blockquote>Your first sentence
<p>Your second sentence</p>
</blockquote>

I’m not sure if this is 100% correct as I’m just going off the top of my head here. This is why I was suggesting that you can get more control over blockquotes by adding classes to the p elements within a blockquote (and this also has the added advantage of giving you a few extra hooks for styling purposes).

You can see an example of how I ended up coding things at this link – http://www.gbv.ie/about-the-consortium/

By using classes qp and qp-last, I was able to style things nicely. Class ‘qp-last’ allows me to place a background “end quote” image. If the code view in word press just showed all of the p elements I think things would make more sense.

I wish that there was an advanced code view option that you could tick which would turn off the current hybrid code view situation that currently exists. It’s a little infuriating at the moment!