How can I remove p tags that are auto added within tinymce

Question

I am using tinymce 4.0.1 and it automatically adds p tags when you either start typing or hit enter. How can I dynamically remove these p tags and then reinsert the content

Answer 1

Can you simply tweak what TinyMCE puts into the database when you display it? See my post for the same thing for Rails.

var str = "{TinyMCE HTML string}"; /* however you get it */
str = str.replace(/^\/,"").replace(/\<\/p\>$/,"");

Here you are removing the beginning and ending p tag of the whole TinyMCE HTML when you display it. Doesn't mess with other p tags or the TinyMCE config.

Explanation of the regex expression (removed \'s for ease of reading):

^
 - find 
 at the start of the string (^) and replace it with nothing.
$ - find 
 at the end of the string ($) and replace it with nothing.

Hope this helps.