Search form extra HTML

Hi,

I’m having the exact same problem as this:

https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/plugin-events-manager-search-form-display?replies=6

and similar to this:

https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/plugin-events-manager-eventlist-shortcode-outputting-br-tags-between-events?replies=2

I’m unable to find why my events listing page with the search form is having additional <p> and
tags added throughout – including between the javascript code.

I have tried with the 2014 theme preview and the events search page/form is fine, but I’m unable to find anything “strange” anywhere in my theme’s code (Avenue) which could be causing the extra HTML code. I’ve also tried de-activating all plugins which didn’t resolve the issue, as well as using different templates for my Events page. Nothing has worked.

Update – I have found the culprit! The Avenue theme shortcodes contains a filter function to format content (called “my_formatter”). I have commented out the code that adds this filter in shortcodes, and content no longer has additional <p> and
injected into it. Yay ??

Hope this solution might help somebody else.

https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/events-manager/