<p><s>I had left P tags around the content in the template, which prevented Redactor from parsing the text the way I wanted.</s></p>
<p>This wasn't it either — the field needed to be cleared out and saved and then the content re-input and re-saved after changing the field settings.</p>

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<p>In every other CMS I've used there's an option to compose multi-paragraph text in the back end which is then parsed out into P tags in templates. Neither the native text field nor the popular Redactor field seems to do that out of the box, and I can't seem to find documentation that helps.</p>
<p>I'm hoping I'm missing something simple!</p>

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The plain text field won't do that but Redactor will do that by default. What are you experiencing with Redactor?
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How do you get Craft to generate multi-paragraph text?
# How do you get Craft to generate multi-paragraph text?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2022-12-21)

In every other CMS I've used there's an option to compose multi-paragraph text in the back end which is then parsed out into P tags in templates. Neither the native text field nor the popular Redactor field seems to do that out of the box, and I can't seem to find documentation that helps.

I'm hoping I'm missing something simple!

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> **Comments:**
> **username_1**: The plain text field won't do that but Redactor will do that by default. What are you experiencing with Redactor?  

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### Answer by username_0 on 2022-12-21. Score: 1

~~I had left P tags around the content in the template, which prevented Redactor from parsing the text the way I wanted.~~

This wasn't it either — the field needed to be cleared out and saved and then the content re-input and re-saved after changing the field settings.


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