Title: Making Paragraphs Automatically
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Making Paragraphs Automatically

 *  [editornen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/editornen/)
 * (@editornen)
 * [14 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/making-paragraphs-automatically/)
 * I use the theme Twenty Eleven and in pages and posts if you type a few words 
   and press enter to type a few more words you want directly under the others it
   automatically start a new paragraph. Is there a way to stop it from doing that?
   Thanks.

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 *  [WPyogi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpyogi/)
 * (@wpyogi)
 * [14 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/making-paragraphs-automatically/#post-2672219)
 * No, that’s how an editor works. You can manually remove the p tags in the HTML
   code if you wish, however. Or you could type in the HTML window — where returns
   don’t matter. But beware of doing that — as you then have to enter all correct
   html tags manually too. — so unless you know html and know how to validate pages,
   it’s not very advisable.
 *  Thread Starter [editornen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/editornen/)
 * (@editornen)
 * [14 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/making-paragraphs-automatically/#post-2672220)
 * A word processor is an editor and you can do anything you want. There must be
   a way in the css to disable it. Anybody?
 *  [WPyogi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpyogi/)
 * (@wpyogi)
 * [14 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/making-paragraphs-automatically/#post-2672225)
 * It’s not a question of CSS — it has nothing to do with CSS.
 * Word processors are not editors in the same way the WP editor is. It’s a completely
   different animal. The purpose of a WP editor is that it allows you to enter content
   without knowing or entering HTML tags. So when you press enter/return the editor
   assumes you want a paragraph — same as in Word. Return makes a paragraph. You
   cannot disable it.
 *  Thread Starter [editornen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/editornen/)
 * (@editornen)
 * [14 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/making-paragraphs-automatically/#post-2672228)
 * Found several plugins that are designed to override “wpautop” but they do not
   seem to work.
 * Also, this seems to work…
 * “Holding the shift key and pressing enter will create a line-break instead of
   a new paragraph.”
 * Still like to kill it in “css” is anybody knows how.

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