forced_root_block deprecation

Apologies if this is not the right place to ask this.

I found this in the docs: Important: Setting forced_root_block to false or an empty string has been deprecated in TinyMCE 5.10. For TinyMCE 6.0, this option will only accept valid block elements.

I want to prevent <p> tags from being generated on enter, and instead create <br>s. This used to be possible by setting forced_root_block to false.

Will there be any way to do this in TinyMCE 6?

See: https://github.com/tinymce/tinymce/issues/6304 https://github.com/tinymce/tinymce/issues/2634

[dav-sap]

Im trying to understand, what about using forced_root_block: 'div' doesn’t that remove the extra space p gives you, and also uses new lines and everything. Are there any issues with outlook here?

[Daijobou]

I’d like to explore and discuss your use case for using BR tags instead of paragraphs.

I honestly don’t understand this question. TinyMCE replaces textarea and textarea does not use paragraphs. Text is written much more often without paragraphs. Pragraphs are needed in scientific texts or in news and blogs.

In comment system or forum posts or or or … paragraphs are not needed. Most users make a line break after each sentence. This is not what paragraphs are for. If we need paragraphs, we press Shift+Enter. There are also situations where you edit a part of a paragraph and it should not contain any other paragraphs because it is already contained in a paragraph. This would destroy the formatting.