Hi Arun,

Are you using Umbraco 7? in v7 you can use - umbraco.library.RemoveFirstParagraphTag

In Umbraco 8 there is no remove first paragraph method but you can find custom helper methods here - https://our.umbraco.com/forum/using-umbraco-and-getting-started/96264-v8-removefirstparagraphtag

Thanks,

Alex

I've dealt with this. I solved it by using an ApplicationEventHandler and removed the extra spacing during the saving event. I can't find the v7 documentation for this, but v8 is here: https://our.umbraco.com/documentation/Reference/Events/ContentService-Events

Anyway, here's the relevant bits from our v7 class. As you'll see I'm doing a few more clean up items than just removing this space.

using log4net;
using System;
using System.Reflection;
using System.Text.RegularExpressions;
using Umbraco.Core;
using Umbraco.Core.Services;
using Umbraco.Core.Events;
using Umbraco.Core.Models;

namespace MyProject.EventHandlers
{
    public class MyContentEvents : ApplicationEventHandler
    {
        private static readonly ILog Log = LogManager.GetLogger(MethodBase.GetCurrentMethod().DeclaringType);

        protected override void ApplicationStarted(UmbracoApplicationBase umbracoApplication, ApplicationContext applicationContext)
        {
            ContentService.Saving += ContentService_Saving;
        }

        private static void ContentService_Saving(IContentService sender, SaveEventArgs<IContent> e)
        {
            foreach (var node in e.SavedEntities)
            {
                ContentCleanup(node);
            }
        }

        private static void ContentCleanup(IContent node)
        {
            try
            {
                foreach (var prop in node.PropertyTypes)
                {
                    CleanupTinyMce(node, prop);
                }
            }
            catch (NullReferenceException ex)
            {
                Log.Warn("Failed custom saving event.", ex);
            }
        }

        private static void CleanupTinyMce(IContent node, PropertyType prop)
        {
            if (prop.PropertyEditorAlias != "Umbraco.TinyMCEv3" || !prop.IsDirty()) return;

            var property = node.Properties[prop.Alias];

            if (property.Value == null) return;

            var revPropVal = DoRteCleanup(property.Value.ToString());
            property.Value = revPropVal;
        }

        private static string DoRteCleanup(string str2Cln)
        {
            var retStr = str2Cln;

            // Let's replace stuff that we know is weird and will cause problems with spaces. Like this screwy non-breaking space.
            retStr = Regex.Replace(retStr, @"(\xa0|&nbsp;)", " ");
            // Replace the empty paragraph tags inserted into TinyMCE for no good reason with spaces.
            retStr = Regex.Replace(retStr, @"<p[^>]*>(<br[^>]*>)*(\s|&nbsp;|\r|\n)*(<br[^>]*>)*(\s|&nbsp;|\r|\n)*</p>",
                " ");
            // Now remove any combos of multiple spaces to clean things up
            retStr = Regex.Replace(retStr, @" {2,}", " ");
            // Detect and convert phone numbers to tel links.
            retStr = Regex.Replace(retStr,
                @"(?<start>[a-zA-Z]""?>|\s|^)(?<OriginalNumber>(\+?(?<NatCode>1)\s*[-\/\.]?)?(?<AreaCode>\(\d{3}\)|\d{3})\s*[-\/\.]?\s*(?<Number1>\d{3})\s*[-\/\.]?\s*(?<Number2>\d{4})\s*?(.*?([xX]|[eE][xX][tT])\.?\s*(?<Ext>\d+))?)(?<end>\.|<|\s)",
                "${start}<a href=\"tel:+1${AreaCode}${Number1}${Number2}\">${OriginalNumber}</a>${end}",
                RegexOptions.IgnoreCase);
            // Remove __mcenew id that is added to images (in some cases)
            retStr = Regex.Replace(retStr, @"id=""__mcenew""", "");

            return retStr;
        }
    }
}

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