Why is the WYSIWYG editor changing <br /> into <p> when editing html?

[ROUBOS]

I'm trying to space out text and paragraphs using the editor, and every <br /> I enter in html, is swapped with a <p> instead, and pushes the text back up.

[webgift]

Use the enter key for <p> and ctrl+enter for <br/>.

[ROUBOS]

ctrl+enter does not work

[datahell]

shift + enter is for inserting a break.

[webgift]

Sorry. My mistake! Shift+Enter for <br/> as datahell wrote above correctly.

[xmanhattan]

You can also set the option in the bot if you want to use

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<p> or <br /> depending on what you use more often.

[AllenG]

I also have encountered this kind of problem myself. I have a suggestion though, why don't you try going out of the WYSIWYG editor, use normal editor and manually press [Enter] to separate a paragraph. Hope this helps. 

[ROUBOS]

I dissable the  WYSIWYG editor from settings, enter my <div> (several div tags) and save.
When I enable the  WYSIWYG editor and go back into the article, it destroys my <div> tags again.  :'(

[webgift]

<div> tags can be imported by the 'html' button on TinyMCE's editor toolbar.

[ROUBOS]

Yes I do import them through the html button, but once you update, you loose all id and class tags and more

[xmanhattan]

Depending on what you are doing with the divs, if you add some lines to template_css.css like

p.avs { font-family: "Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; }
p.tnr { font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 12px; }

then you will find them at the bottom of the list in the style drop down.