id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	priority	milestone	component	version	severity	resolution	keywords	cc
5250	wpautop() issue with lists	Narc0tiq	anonymous	"First of all, my sincere apologies if this is a duplicate.


The problem, in short: WordPress inserted a number of unclosed `<p>` tags into my post. It should either insert correctly closed tags, or none at all. I honestly would prefer the former.


In detail: I had HTML code very similar to this:

<ul>
  <li>text<ul>
    <li>subtext</li>
  </ul>more text</li>
</ul>


This was automatically converted to:

<ul>
  <li>text<ul>
    <li>subtext</li>
  </ul><p>more text</li>
</ul>

Note the extra `<p>` tag in the above, which is unclosed (making the W3C validator choke on my website).

Also note, I was not using the WYSIWYG editor (turning it off was the first thing I did), so it's unlikely to be due to that.


As a workaround, manually inserting properly closed `<p>` tags works just fine:

<ul>
  <li>text<ul>
    <li>subtext</li>
  </ul><p>more text</p></li>
</ul>

Since this workaround exists, the bug is not very prioritary, but it should also (hopefully) be easy to fix."	defect (bug)	new	normal	Future Release	Formatting	2.3	normal		xhtml autop needs-patch	Jani Uusitalo