I’m using WYSIWYG fields within Flexible Content blocks. I’m running into an issue which is messing up my layout. The content I put in the WYSIWYG field – in this case just 1 paragraph – is being displayed correctly. However, it’s showing as follows in the HTML code:
<p></p>
<p>My written content is here</p>
<p></p>
These empty tags are using up extra space, thus messing up my layout.
I’ve found solutions online to turn off ‘wpautop’ but the way I understand it, that would completely stop ACF from wrapping the content in a tag, which is not what I want.
So it turns out I was calling the text as follows:
<p><?php echo $text; ?></p>
But because the WYSIWYG already includes p-tags, for some reason WordPress/ACF then decides to add empty p-tags before AND after the paragraph.
Anyway, I removed the p-tags from my code and now it’s working as intended 🙂
