[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #22230: WP adds <br /> before <select even where there is no line break in source code

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#22230: WP adds <br /> before <select even where there is no line break in source
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 Reporter:  chirael       |       Owner:
     Type:  defect (bug)  |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal        |   Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  Formatting    |     Version:  3.4.2
 Severity:  normal        |  Resolution:
 Keywords:                |
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Comment (by uecasm):

 +1 to annoying.  It's also adding <p></p> tags around any text immediately
 following the <select> element, which can't be worked around via the
 display:none trick (as that hides the text as well).

 I strongly suggest reducing wpautop to only treat [http://www.w3.org/TR
 /REC-html40/sgml/dtd.html#block elements that actually are blocks] as
 blocks.

 I further suggest that regardless of whether that is done or not, WP
 should respect some kind of marker in the post source itself to disable
 wpautop within a specific section of content without disabling it
 globally.  Perhaps by hijacking the now-obsolete <nobr> tag -- make
 wpautop strip out the <nobr></nobr> tags themselves but leave any content
 within those tags completely untouched.  This way authors can explicitly
 indicate sections of a post which contain preformatted HTML that they
 don't want messed with.

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