I have the same p-problem!

Quite a few dynamic elements and they need to be inline with adjoined description texts. Also I dont want no extra white space on dynamically created pages. In my case TinyMCE is most of the time "off", not in use. User writes the content in to a textarea with plain text and predefined css takes care of all the fonts, colors, sizes etc. But to allow user occasionally enhance his or hers text, one can turn TinyMCE "on" and it can be done - only there is these <p> tags everywhere changing the layout.
Is there a way to go around that? That is, without paragraph-tags aroud an entry?

Did you "cmiwebstudio" ever find a solution to this?

Thank you.  I've already read that and it really doesn't address my question.  I dont want tinymce to wrap the text in any kind of html tag... not P, not BR... nothing.  Within the text, I don't care what it does, as long as it does wrap the entire lot of content in an html tag.

how do i do that?

Do it on the server side before presentation. In PHP or .NET or what ever. But styling the paragraphs is the way to go. This is exactly how Office works. And we use Office as a benchmark for TinyMCE since most non technical users need a similar environment.

This statement in the documentation is utterly amazing:
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We have never seen one single valid reason why paragraphs must not be used unless it's for e-mail software or for integration with Flash, and both cases can and should be solved with post processing if you want the user to be able to modify the contents again with TinyMCE. If you have a good reason please drop us a e-mail describing it and I will put it on my exceptions list.
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The reason is quite simple.  <p> tags are styled by the user.  Why would we want to change the user's code?

I don't want <p> tags inserted.  Period. I have tried the suggested init below and I am still getting <p> tags everytime I add a line and hit the 'enter' key.   <p> tags should only be inserted when the user highlights a text and then selects the 'paragraph' in the styles dropdown.   Post-processing cannot determine which tags were added by TinyMCE and which were originally in the code.

Why is TinyMCE still inserting <p> tags?

forced_root_block : false,
    force_p_newlines : 'false',
    remove_linebreaks : false,
    force_br_newlines : true,              //btw, I still get <p> tags if this is false
    remove_trailing_nbsp : false,   
    verify_html : false,

If you do that, then you remove all margin / padding for all p tags for the text generated.... which you don't want.  I don't want to remove Paragraph tags from the text either per instructions I've read, nor do I want to remove the padding/margin for them, I want to remove the paragraph tag that tinyMCE adds to wrap the text.  There's a big difference in this request.  This requires a minor modification of the script that powers tinyMCE, and I'm asking for directions with how to get there so I don't have to sift through lots of code unnecessarily.

TinyMCE is wrapping tables in a p-tag too. So you get invalid html code.

It's definitely no problem of my site! Go to

http://tinymce.moxiecode.com/examples/full.php

Delete the content,
insert a table,
look at the HTML source,
you get:

<p>
<table border="0">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</p>

This is invalid code in HTML and XHTML.

There is an option that solves this issue. But we have been looking into making a more elegant solution for this problem.

http://wiki.moxiecode.com/index.php/Tin … e_elements

Correction - after writing all that I saw the following options listed above:

    forced_root_block : false,
    force_p_newlines : 'false',
    remove_linebreaks : false,
    force_br_newlines : true,              //btw, I still get <p> tags if this is false
    remove_trailing_nbsp : false,   
    verify_html : false,

Setting all of these has fixed it for me.

From reading this thread, it seems that changing those settings removes <p> tags from everything in the editor, but that's not what I'm looking to do. The CMS I'm working with uses certain tags within content on a page to display images, (placing {image_1} inbetween lines now outputs <p><img /></p> but should just output <img />). I've tried removing all formatting, but it still spits out the <p> tags. I've tried editing the HTML with the HTML button, but it still reverts back to <p> tags. Any help on removing TinyMCE formatting just where I'd like it to would be greatly appreciated! Great product otherwise!