We have a customer who wants to be able to add extra <p> tags to create whitespace in an article...

Tinymce keeps removing them (when the node is saved, and the node is manually reloaded in the content editor), and directly on the view of the page.

I've read these:

• http://our.umbraco.org/forum/using/ui-questions/24338-TinyMCE-removes-brakes-and-spaces
• http://forum.umbraco.org/yaf_postst9117_Prevent-TinyMCE-to-convert-linebreaks.aspx
• http://our.umbraco.org/forum/templating/templates-and-document-types/15950-Disabled-tidy-for-RTE,-still-see-it-tidying-up-the-place
• http://our.umbraco.org/wiki/how-tos/customizing-the-wysiwyg-rich-text-editor-%28tinymce%29/allow-any-markup-in-the-tinymce-editor

but i still can't get it to allow any markup in the richttext editor ?

I have a Umbraco 4.5.2 install, with the latest tinymce3 from 4.7.1 (as recommented by Tim G. as a test)

In my UmbracoSettings.config i have:

    <TidyEditorContent>False</TidyEditorContent>

in my tinymceConfig.config:

  <validElements>
<![CDATA[*[*]]]>
  </validElements>

Still when I save the page content, empty P & spans are removed.

Any idea on what i can do to keep the empty span/p tags in the tinymce editor?

Thanks!
Rik