How do I go about stripping or disallowing <br> tags and </br> tags from my posts? They are ruining my template, causing all sorts of huge gaps in text whenever they appear. Does anyone have any suggestions as to how I either disallow the tags, or strip them out of the posts once saved? www.helloelbow.com is the Wordpress blog template that I am having the issus with ...
The default Wordpress WYSIWYG editor really has a strange way of converting everything into HTML. I would suggest looking for a different WYSIWYG editor for Wordpress, or better yet, disable the visual editor and do everything purely with HTML.
Hmm, possibly a good idea. The problem is that I have users on my Wordpress blog who are not overly web savvy, so the WYSIWYG editor is kinda necessary. So ideally I need to just put a 'block' on <br> tags, which seem to often be inserted when someone copies text from MS Word directly into the WYSIWYG editor. Any suggestions how I can overcome this?
Don't use MS Word for posts. Use a plain editor like Notepad, or copy to notepad, just to strip the code, and copy and paste onto wordpress post editor.
Yeah, I've tried that, it still adds <br> tags for some reason. Plus, I've got other writers who sometimes aren't all that good at following instructions, so I need to make it fool proof
I installed TinyMCE Advanced, although it helps show me where the <br/> tags are installed, it doesn't solve the problem. I want eradicate the possibility of <br> tags appearing in my posts all together if possible, because they make my page look plain ugly. For example, check this out... http://www.helloelbow.com/news/test-br-again/ Is this something I should be able to fix with css or something? I'm going to cry soon this is frustrating me so much!