Posted 5 years ago #
if you write a post which content is:
hello
then the result is
<div class="entry">
<p>
hello
</p>
</div>
thats is
<div class="entry">
<?php the_content() ?>
</div>
how do i remove these paragraph tags?
(not using the visual rich text editor does not solve)
thank u
Posted 5 years ago #
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.
Posted 5 years ago #
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 http://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.
Posted 5 years ago #
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.
Posted 5 years ago #
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.
Posted 5 years ago #
to answer pidge's curiosity, the reason was to have posts displayed inline.
( http://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.
Posted 5 years ago #
how do u use css to negate the P tag? it was suggested, but i do not know how to do this
Posted 5 years ago #
"how do u use css to negate the P tag? "
p {
display: inline;
}
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: http://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.
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