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James_Allan
James_Allan
Level 1
December 10, 2019
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Can someboday tell me why stupid Marketo encases the fields I edit with the email editor with P tags.

  • December 10, 2019
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 I tried to disable this in the admin area to no avail.  I then wrote a style rule for the custom template to override the vertical margin associated with said tags which works fine when I test in the admin area but fails in production when emails are sent.  Marketo, you suck!

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Jay_Jiang
Jay_Jiang
Level 10
December 11, 2019

Yes this is annoying. Tip: you can use <div> tags which won't have default margins like <p>

Dave_Roberts
Dave_Roberts
Level 10
December 14, 2019

Hey James,

I agree this isn't really a helpful default that Marketo sets out-of-the-box. You can adjust this setting for both LPs and EMs under the Email section in the Admin menu. 

Admin > Email > Edit Text Editor Settings > change both dropdowns to "none".

 

By default, the LPs are set to have a <div> around the content and the EMs are set to have a <p> around the content.

Another thing that I've noticed is that you'll occasionally get a "not-so helpful" hand with <br> tags being injected into empty divs inside an editable area >> EX. <div class="spacer"></div> becomes <div class="spacer"><br></div>. To work around this, I'll usually put an empty comment tag inside the empty element >> EX. <div class="spacer"><!-- --></div> and this seems to prevent the <br> from getting added. 

Hope this is helpful, let me know if you run into any issues changing this. 

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