[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #5250: Unclosed p tags -- not XHTML-compliant!

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#5250: Unclosed p tags -- not XHTML-compliant!
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 Reporter:  Narc0tiq  |       Owner:  anonymous
     Type:  defect    |      Status:  new      
 Priority:  low       |   Milestone:  2.5      
Component:  General   |     Version:  2.3      
 Severity:  trivial   |    Keywords:  xhtml    
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 First of all, my sincere apologies if this is a duplicate.


 The problem, in short: WordPress inserted a number of unclosed `<p>` tags
 into my post. It should either insert correctly closed tags, or none at
 all. I honestly would prefer the former.


 In detail: I had HTML code very similar to this:

 <ul>
   <li>text<ul>
     <li>subtext</li>
   </ul>more text</li>
 </ul>


 This was automatically converted to:

 <ul>
   <li>text<ul>
     <li>subtext</li>
   </ul><p>more text</li>
 </ul>

 Note the extra `<p>` tag in the above, which is unclosed (making the W3C
 validator choke on my website).

 Also note, I was not using the WYSIWYG editor (turning it off was the
 first thing I did), so it's unlikely to be due to that.


 As a workaround, manually inserting properly closed `<p>` tags works just
 fine:

 <ul>
   <li>text<ul>
     <li>subtext</li>
   </ul><p>more text</p></li>
 </ul>

 Since this workaround exists, the bug is not very prioritary, but it
 should also (hopefully) be easy to fix.

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Ticket URL: <http://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/5250>
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