Admin Forum:How to prevent the insertion of p- and span-tags?

I like wikicode. I really do. It's great. But.

For the past hour or two I've been trying to throw together a template that allows wikicode but prevents the wikicode parser from inserting all kinds of useless and unwanted p- and span-tags. The "creative" interpretation of the whitespace in my wikicode is starting to get on my nerves.

(What I'm trying to create is a div with two columns of links in it btw)

Can that be done? Can you have wiki links (and wiki headers etc.) but still complete control over the whitespace? -- Pecoes 20:20, March 1, 2012 (UTC)


 * I did find a hack. I neutralized the unwanted markup with:


 * and handled the whitespace by throwing around with &lt;br /&gt;s like nobody's business.


 * That seems to have worked. Still: If someone knows how to take control of the whitespace without resorting to hacks, please, do tell me! -- Pecoes 21:29, March 1, 2012 (UTC)