Disable Wordpress from adding tags

Question

All I've got is the following little snippet of code:

<select size="1" name="EventHour<?php echo $i; ?>"> 
    <option>1</option> 
    <option>2</option> 
    <option>3</option> 
    <option>4</option> 
    <option>5</option> 
    <option>6</option> 
    <option>7</option> 
    <option>8</option> 
    <option>9</option> 
    <option>10</option> 
    <option>11</option> 
    <option>12</option> 
  </select> 
  : <!-- note this character -->
  <select size="1" name="EventMinute<?php echo $i; ?>"> 
    <option>00</option> 
    <option>05</option> 
    <option>10</option> 
    <option>15</option> 
    <option>20</option> 
    <option>25</option> 
    <option>30</option> 
    <option>35</option> 
    <option>40</option> 
    <option>45</option> 
    <option>50</option> 
    <option>55</option> 
  </select> 

The should output fine. However, Wordpress adds a p-tag around both of my select-elements as well as around the ":"-character. This makes them all end up on different rows.

I've installed and activated the Wordpress plugin "Disable Visual Editor WYSIWYG" on this page without any success. Any other ideas what I can do to stop this from happening? Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

Wordpress modifies and cleans your entered HTML both in the editor and at output.

Use this plugin to get unmodified markup into your posts:

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/raw-html/

Answer 2

Use this:

remove_filter( 'the_content', 'wpautop' );
remove_filter( 'the_excerpt', 'wpautop' );

in your functions.php

Here's the complete answer: http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wpautop#Disabling_the_filter

Answer 3

You can minify your code. Wordpress won't destroy code if everything will be in one line.

I do it, when I want put or tags inside certain posts.

Answer 4

Try this in your functions.php

<?php remove_filter ('the_content', 'wpautop'); ?>

Answer 5

In my case doing it manually for the page:

Result that shows extra p tags:

 <p><?php if($description){ echo $description; } ?></p> 
 <p><?php if($description){ echo wpautop($description); } ?></p> 

Result that removes extra p tags:

 <?php if($description){ echo wpautop($description); } ?>  

Note, i removed the p tags around the echo, also then added wpautop to the echo.

End Result:

<p>description content</p>