Title: Missing p tags
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Missing p tags

 *  [jowiii](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jowiii/)
 * (@jowiii)
 * [16 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/missing-p-tags/)
 * Hi,
 * When i make a paragraph around some text, their is no p-tag in the source code.
 * It looks like this:
    “Text
 * Text text text
 * text text
    “
 * Instead of looking like this:
    “<p>Text</p> <p>Text text text</p> <p>text text
   </p>

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 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [16 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/missing-p-tags/#post-1218827)
 * Sounds like your theme is using the_excerpt(). You could try going through the
   theme template files and replacing the_excerpt() with the_content().
 *  [doc4](https://wordpress.org/support/users/doc4/)
 * (@doc4)
 * [16 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/missing-p-tags/#post-1218906)
 * Jowiii,
 * Is this an issue you are seeing only in the TinyMCE editor or is this also translating
   across to the published post as well? You don’t necessarily see <p> tags within
   the HTML editor of WordPress.
 *  Thread Starter [jowiii](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jowiii/)
 * (@jowiii)
 * [16 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/missing-p-tags/#post-1218933)
 * Thanks esmi, i will try.
 * Only in the editor. Maybe i can solve the problem with css, styling the p-tag..?
 *  [s_ha_dum](https://wordpress.org/support/users/apljdi/)
 * (@apljdi)
 * [16 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/missing-p-tags/#post-1218934)
 * Jowiii, if its only in the editor why are you worried about it? The editor is
   a little odd. As doc4 mentioned, you might not– I’d say usually won’t– see the`
   <p>` tags.
 *  Thread Starter [jowiii](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jowiii/)
 * (@jowiii)
 * [16 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/missing-p-tags/#post-1218951)
 * I though i couldnt see it in the source code.
    My mistake.
 * But the problem is that their is no space between each paragraph. Do i just have
   to use padding?
 *  [s_ha_dum](https://wordpress.org/support/users/apljdi/)
 * (@apljdi)
 * [16 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/missing-p-tags/#post-1218952)
 * > Do i just have to use padding?
 * Yes. Formatting should be done via CSS and the editor in a kinda clunky way forces
   this– and it seems to trigger its fair share of complaints. By the way, I’m mostly
   on the side of those who think that the html editor should honor _all_ html, 
   but right now it doesn’t. [There is a plugin though](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/raw-html/).

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * Last reply from: [s_ha_dum](https://wordpress.org/support/users/apljdi/)
 * Last activity: [16 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/missing-p-tags/#post-1218952)
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