[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #42340: Spurious Insertion of <p>aragraph Tags

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#42340: Spurious Insertion of <p>aragraph Tags
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 Reporter:  oeconomist    |       Owner:
     Type:  defect (bug)  |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal        |   Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  Formatting    |     Version:
 Severity:  normal        |  Resolution:
 Keywords:                |     Focuses:
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Comment (by JPry):

 Replying to [comment:6 oeconomist]:
 > It is one thing for the code to recognize that most users don't know or
 don't want to be bothered with mark-up, and therefore to interpret
 newlines as paragraph closures; it's another for the code to infer that a
 user didn't intend the mark-up that he or she entered.

 The WordPress editor and {{{wpautop()}}} work the way they do because most
 people don't want be bothered with markup. WordPress Core is designed for
 the majority, and the majority of users would want their markup to be
 cleaned up if they copied and pasted it from some other source. That means
 that for the majority of users, the current behavior is '''not''' a bug.

 For those users, like yourself, who know exactly what markup they want, it
 is certainly understandable that the default behavior has aspects that
 don't work for you. However, that means that the best solution for you may
 be to disable the default behavior.

 > But they are just work-arounds, not patches of the bug.

 One thing that hasn't been mentioned yet here is that even though this
 seems like a small change, this could have huge ramifications for the
 majority of users. They would suddenly have different generated output on
 their site. To them, if the change you're requesting was made, the ''new''
 behavior would be a bug.

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