Title: wordpress auto p function
Last modified: August 24, 2016

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# wordpress auto p function

 *  Resolved [timholz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/timholz/)
 * (@timholz)
 * [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-auto-p-function/)
 * Hi
 * The auto <p> function causes errors in html validation.
    No matter what i do,
   the error is still there. The auto p function inserts code like this:`<p></p>`
   The validator reads this as «no end p tag is seen». Is there a way to avoid this
   or some work around? Can this error be ignored? Or is the only remedy to disable
   the function?
 * Thanks for your interest
 * regards
    theo

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 *  [byanofsky](https://wordpress.org/support/users/byanofsky/)
 * (@byanofsky)
 * [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-auto-p-function/#post-6055553)
 * Can you post a URL as an example of this issue?
 *  Thread Starter [timholz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/timholz/)
 * (@timholz)
 * [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-auto-p-function/#post-6055617)
 * Hi
 * Thanks for your response.
    Here is the page: [ratsblog.ch/weiterbildung](http://ratsblog.ch/weiterbildung/)
   When you check this link with the w3c validator, you get three times: «No p element
   in scope but a p end tag seen.»
 * Inspecting the Dom the tags look like: `<p></p>`
    The validator obviously cannot
   read this correctly. I do not know whether this mistake is neglectable, but i
   would like to know why it occurs and if there is a way to fix it.
 * Regards
    theo
 *  [byanofsky](https://wordpress.org/support/users/byanofsky/)
 * (@byanofsky)
 * [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-auto-p-function/#post-6055621)
 * Go to your post and click the “text” tab instead of visual. Delete the <p> tags
   and reenter them. It seems like your site changed it into an html entity instead
   of the tag.
 *  Thread Starter [timholz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/timholz/)
 * (@timholz)
 * [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-auto-p-function/#post-6055622)
 * I did not enter any <p> tags at all. It is wordpress that does that automatically.
   There is not a single <p> Tag in the text editor.
 *  Thread Starter [timholz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/timholz/)
 * (@timholz)
 * [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-auto-p-function/#post-6055679)
 * Hi
    I found the solution in the german part of the forum. I added p tags to my
   shortcode.
 * regards
    theo
 *  Thread Starter [timholz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/timholz/)
 * (@timholz)
 * [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-auto-p-function/#post-6055680)
 * I forgot to mark this topic as closed.

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 * Last reply from: [timholz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/timholz/)
 * Last activity: [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-auto-p-function/#post-6055680)
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