[Typo3] Preserving <p> tags in HTMLAREA RTE

[Pieter]

Jason Lefkowitz wrote:

>Hey everyone...
>
>I've been hacking away on a simple extension for a project I'm working on, and so far it's been easier than I expected!  However, I have run into one stumbling block.  I have defined one field in my data table to be filled-in using the RTE -- i'm using HTMLAREA, not the stock RTE, if that matters -- and when users enter content into this field via the RTE, the <p> tags surrounding their paragraphs are being discarded.  Then, when the content is called up later for display, it looks like a big run-on paragraph.
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>I take it from reading all the docs on RTE Transformations that this is by design, so that the content in the database doesn't have a bunch of extraneous <p> tags.  Fair enough.  But what do I need to do to get the <p> tags added back when I retrieve the content for display later?  Or, failing that, is there a way to tell the RTE to save the <p> tags?  The docs indicate that you can use skipAlign and skipClass in TSConfig to do this, but I tried them and they don't seem to do the trick...
>
>thanks in advance!
>
>- Jason Lefkowitz (jlefkowitz)
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>
I have been struggling with more or less the same problem.  The 
transformations from the RTE (classic or HtmlArea) give problems as soon 
as tables in the RTE become a little more complex.  I see only one 
solution:  Typo3 has a content element "HTML".  The text from this HTML 
content element is stored into the database without any transformation.  
Why not use the content type "HTML" instead of the content type "Text" 
and enable the htmlArea editor for "HTML" .

I don't have the Typo3 knowledge to actually do this, so it's been only 
an idea up to now.  It would be a new extension (I think) that enables 
htmlArea for the HTML content element.

Best regards,
Pieter