How can I prevent Wordpress to wrap <br> into a <p> paragragraph

Question

When I create a new page and put <br class="clear"> into the HTML view it gets rendered as

<p>
  <br class="clear">
</p>

This causes problems with the theme http://www.gallyapp.com/tf_themes/?theme=Lotus where the <br> is not wrapped.

How can remove the wrapping?

There's already a few solutions to this problem in this thread.
Does using <div class="clear"></div> solve the problem? I think using a div will work around the issue.

Alexey · Accepted Answer · 2011-10-05 11:59:18Z

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Use shortcode instead of <br class="clear">

answered Oct 5 '11 at 11:59

Alexey
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	Thanks, is there a particular shortcode you had in mind? Or do you mean I should create my own shortcode with <br class="clear"> as content? – Cilvic Oct 5 '11 at 13:10
	@Civic, I mean create your own. Another solution is to filter the content It's even more easier. – Alexey Oct 5 '11 at 13:34

daanVOS · Answer 2 · 2011-10-05 14:12:27Z

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you can strip all the filters by calling get_the_content() instead of the_content()

answered Oct 5 '11 at 14:12

daanVOS
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