force_br_newlines

This option is deprecated as of 3.5 use forced_root_blocks: false instead to control p vs br behavior.

If you set this option to true, TinyMCE will force BR elements on newlines instead of inserting paragraphs. This option is set to false by default since paragraphs is a much better concept. BR elements should only be used when you really have to (mostly never). Also as of 3.x the forced_root_block option is enabled by default so if you really want to disable paragraphs disable that one as well.

Example of usage of the force_br_newlines option:

tinyMCE.init({
  force_br_newlines : true,
  force_p_newlines : false,
  forced_root_block : '' // Needed for 3.x
});

Example of paragraph no margin css

This CSS will reduce the space between (lines) paragraphs to zero. It will look more like the default line spacing in popular Word processors.

p {margin: 0; padding: 0;}

Post processing away P tags before output to Flash/E-mail

Perl Example

Note that this code does not rely upon regular expressions for processing the HTML, since you really cannot rely upon them to do the job. For a detailed discussion, see How do I remove HTML from a string? in perlfaq9; at the terminal of a machine with Perl, type perldoc -q html.

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use HTML::TokeParser;
use CGI ();

my $cgi = CGI->new;

# Test by uncommenting next line and changing the value:
# $cgi->param(content => "your html here for testing only");

# Replace 'content' with name of your TinyMCE-edited field:
my $p = HTML::TokeParser->new( $cgi->param('content') );
my $output = "";
while (my $token = $p->get_token){
    if ($token->[0] eq 'S'){
        if ($token->[1] eq 'p'){
            $output .= '<br/>';
        } else {
            $output .= $token->[4];
        }
    }
    elsif ($token->[0] eq 'E'){
        if ($token->[1] eq 'p'){
            $output .= '<br/>';
        } else {
            $output .= $token->[2];
        }
    }
    elsif ($token->[0] eq 'PI'){
        $output .= $token->[2];
    }
    else {
        $output .= $token->[1];;
    }
}

# Your new doc is in $output
warn $output;
__END__

PHP Example

// Get content from TinyMCE
$content = $_REQUEST['content'];
$content = preg_replace('/<p[^>]*>/', '', $content); // Remove the start <p> or <p attr="">
$content = preg_replace('/</p>/', '<br />', $content); // Replace the end
echo $content; // Output content without P tags

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