[TYPO3] p-tags: frontend vs. RTE

[Wolfgang Illmeyer]

Hi.
I'm in the process of learning Typo3 and I have the following issue:

I have a fresh install of Typo3-4.1.1. I use the included htmlArea RTE to edit 
page content. And in my site template I render said content fresh from the 
tt_content table.

However, when looking at the content at the frontend, all the p-tags are 
missing, except for ones with the class attribute set. The RTE shows all the 
p-tags in the right place.

After installing the phpMyAdmin extension, I was able to figure out that the 
p-tags I'm missing in the front end don't show up in the database either.

Can somebody please explain me (possibly in a step-by-step way, but I know 
where to find e.g. my site template) either:

- How I can disable the stripping of the p-tags, so they show up in the 
database.

or

- How to correctly work around that behaviour, so that the frontend gets the 
same plain text as the RTE (with all the p tags), and why it is a good idea 
to leave the plain p-tags out of the database.

or both ;)


Thank you very much

Wolfgang


PS: Yes, I tried Google, but since I'm new to Typo3 I couldn't find out what 
to do exactly and I wasn't sure if I found the right answer, because they 
seemed to be specific to some third party extensions. And the homepage says 
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