Remove automatic paragraph from wordpress widget

Question

I've just done with my first wordpress theme. My problem is, when I create a new text-widget, the output gets automatically added in paragraph and I also see <br /> tag inserted after every line. Can anybody help me here!

I've added remove_filter('the_content', 'wpautop'); to my functions.php but it doesn't worked.

Answer 1

Maybe this can help you (or others too):

// remove <br> tags from text widget content, from 4.8 version WP adds these tags
remove_filter('widget_text_content', 'wpautop');