Hiding Unsupported HTML Tags?

[Heatherlly]

Hi! I've enabled basic HTML for my users, but I'd like to know how to hide unsupported tags.

For example, if someone posts:

<p>Sample text.</p>

I'd just like it to show:

Sample text.

This is an important modification for my site, as quite a few users will be copying and pasting text from another site. All the other HTML tags are supported, but the paragraph tag is problematic.

NOTE: I initially added it to the list of supported tags for basic HTML, but it creates too much extra spacing. Seems more practical just to strip/hide it.

Any help you can give me would be great. Thank you!

[Aleksi "Lex" Kilpinen]

Adding spacing is part of what p is supposed to do, the browser adds margin automatically before and after the <p> element.
If you wish to support it, adding it to the supported tags is IMO the easier route - to strip it away, would require you to parse it out of the messages ( like handling BBC ).

[Heatherlly]

Thanks so much for responding. 

I do understand the functionality of paragraph tags. The problem is, SMF already inserts linebreaks, so enabling <p> leads to four linebreaks instead of two. I did try enabling it while setting margin: 0  for paragraphs in my CSS file, but that didn't work.

[live627]

word censor?

[Heatherlly]

I tried that and it didn't work, but I was able to do it through PHP.  Issue resolved.