Render posts with paragraphs instead of line breaks

[adamgreenough]

Hi! I am hoping to get some insight/help from some experienced XF developers.

I am looking to render my posts with paragraphs instead of line breaks as discussed here:

XF 2.0 - XenForo posts have no paragraph tags <p></p>, only line breaks <br />

I noticed the WYSIWYG editor used in the XenForo software does not generate paragraph tags (). I checked the posts in this forum and found only line breaks between paragraphs. Using line breaks to space paragraphs can be semantically inappropriate. Did anyone notice this problem?

xenforo.com

The Froala editor already uses paragraph mode so I can easily tweak the CSS on this to display as it should, however, somewhere during the post rendering it converts them to line breaks (<br>).

Is this something that can be edited non-destructively using an add-on? I do not hold out much hope for a fix in core. If so, I'd love to discuss.

Many thanks.

 

[adamgreenough]

Been advised from a XF developer that this should be possible and that...

It's mostly a matter of extending \XF\BbCode\Renderer\Html::filterString() in PHP to swap nl2br() with a function that converts newlines to paragraphs

Still looking to pay someone with XF expertise to help me implement this! I can take care of CSS.

 

[Ozzy47]

I recommend @TickTackk for the job of he is interested. Quality code and fair prices.