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So when looking at the html-view in the editor there is no <p> tags, when a view the post every line break is surrounded with a <p>. How?

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It adds them on display.. it's one of several filters that are ran over the content when it is prepared for display. – t31os Dec 7 '11 at 18:13
Wow, I hadn't realised this. That would rather inefficient to me. I would have thought the opposite would be better: remove them on edit. Not that it matters really I guess. – ZweiBlumen Dec 7 '11 at 19:56

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The content is run through the wpautop filter (there's a lot about that on Google).

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