We have had many questions about how paragraphs are handled in TinyMCE and users wanting to have <BR> elements instead of <P>. Adrian Sutton at our partner Ephox has written a few blog posts about various issues and misconceptions on this topic. And we also explained many issues in our FAQ.

• Why P Tags are Your Friends
• P Tags in Word
• P Tags and Single Line Fields
• P tags and Flash
• The Email and P Myth

So to sum things up, paragraphs are here to stay and TinyMCE will continue to produce them on enter by default.