Wygwam 'read more' option without new paragraph tags

Question

I am using the wygwam add on, and clicking the "read more" icon to create an excerpt. However, whenever I do this, it creates a paragraph tag around the text before the read more and starts a paragraph tag for the text after the read more. For instance, when I click view source, I see this:

<p>some text</p><!--read_more--><p>some more text</p>

I can view source and remove that /p before and p after, and that works fine. But if I wanted to stick to WYSIWYG, how do I eliminate those paragraph breaks. What I essentially want is a solid block of text without paragraph breaks when the extended portion is showing.

Answer 1

I'm not sure if it will work as this is a special feature of Wygwam but try using a soft return (SHIFT+RETURN) instead of a hard return. This will use a
tag instead of a

tag pair.

Of course, this will still cause a new line but you might be able to mitigate that via css by setting the
tag to be inline.