Turn off enclosing <p> tags in CKEditor 3.0

Question

Is there a possibility to turn off the automatic enclosing of all written content within <p></p> in CKEditor 3.x?

I tried

  CKEDITOR.config.enterMode = CKEDITOR.ENTER_BR;

but this just changes the inline linebreaks to <br /> while leaving the enclosing paragraph.

Currently writing "Test" produces this output

<p>
    Test</p>

but I want it to be simply

Test

Is there a configuration property for this or would another inline editor to be better suited for this?

Answer 1

I am experiencing the exact same problem... it seems to be an old issue. Others are discussing this annoyance on the CKEditor official forums. http://cksource.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=5&amp;t=7955

Answer 2

I'm doing something I'm not proud of as workaround. In my Python servlet that actually saves to the database, I do:

if description.startswith('<p>') and description.endswith('</p>'):
    description = description[3:-4]

Answer 3

CKEDITOR.config.enterMode = CKEDITOR.ENTER_BR; - this works perfectly for me. Have you tried clearing your browser cache - this is an issue sometimes.
You can also check it out with the jQuery adapter:

<script type="text/javascript" src="/js/ckeditor/ckeditor.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="/js/ckeditor/adapters/jquery.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
$(function() {
    $('#your_textarea').ckeditor({
        toolbar: 'Full',
        enterMode : CKEDITOR.ENTER_BR,
        shiftEnterMode: CKEDITOR.ENTER_P
    });
});
</script>