Preserving <p> tags inside a <blockquote> tag in a Redactor rich text field

Question

If I have multiple paragraphs of text in a rich text field, and I select them all and select "Quote" from the formatting menu, the <p> tags are stripped out and replaced with double <br> tags, like so:

<blockquote>
This is some text.<br><br>
Here's some more text.<br>
</blockquote>

Is there any way to preserve the <p> tags, like so?

<blockquote>
    <p>This is some text.</p>
    <p>Here's some more text.</p>
</blockquote>

I've been through the Redactor documentation and config settings and haven't found anything that seems relevant.

Answer 1

Would you consider an alternative Matrix based approach where one rich text field was used for article-copy and another separate rich text field, used for the blockquote?

So: Matrix field: "Article blocks"

• Block 1: "Article"
• Block 2: "Quote"

e.g. (screen shot from a current project...)

That way you could leverage Matrix functionality and allow more layout control as well - such as alignment etc - to the blockqoutes, and maintain your paragraphs as well.