How can I fix the ACF wysiwyg Field formatting HTML?

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Description:

ACF wysiwyg Field is auto formatting HTML, adds < paragraph > tags, which I want to disable but I don’t find any options.

In coding, we used to do this: the_field(‘myfield’, false, false) which automatically turns off the HTML formatting for that specific Wysiwyg editor field.

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Environment info

  • WordPress version: 5.9.3
  • Gutenberg Plugin version: -
  • Cwicly Plugin version: 1.1.4
  • Cwicly Theme version: 1.0.3
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Hello @haroonbro,

Thanks for bringing this up!
We currently recommend to change the Paragraph block tag to a <div> so that it doesn’t print the HTML on the frontend, but formatting is an option we will be adding to the dynamic selector very soon.

Cheers,

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Amazing. Thank you so much Louis. Appreciate your time to reply my silly questions.

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Thanks so much for this. For the longest while I have struggled because it was adding a blank <p> at the beginning of all of my blocks of text. This small edit fixes all of that.

I’m finding that unless I specifically want body text, it’s simply better to tag the paragraph blocks as either <div> or <span> to eliminate any unwanted styling.

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Hello @Louis,

Regarding the fix from 1.2.9.5.3:

Does this change have any impact on this bug or are they unrelated?

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Hello @StrangeTech,

No these aren’t related.

FSE more generally adds a certain number of <p> tags automatically depending on the Gutenberg version, but in the case of a non block theme, we did notice some issues, hence why we removed this filter if the theme is not block based.