Issue: Table BBCode Parsing Bug

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June 6, 2016 11:31 AM

Gossamer

Junior Member

Table BBCode Parsing Bug

I noticed a small bug when nesting a center bbcode tag inside of a table cell. If you do not have an empty line between the center closing tag and the "|-", then it won't read the |- and puts the following row on the same row. However, if you put an empty line there, then it generates correctly.

I haven't had this issue with any other bbcode yet. Only the alignment ones.

Working example that results in this:

Code:

[TABLE]
|-
| class="tcat" | Rank
| class="tcat" | Description
|-
| Untrained
| description goes here

[center]Untrained humans cannot use this skill[/center]

|-
| 1: Novice
| Selection of first focus + 2 starting abilities
|-
| 2: Practiced
| asdfasdfasdf
|-
| 3: Professional
| asdfasdgasd
|-
| 4: Expert
| asdfasdfasdf
|-
| 5: Master
| asdfasdfasd
|-
[/TABLE]

Broken Example that results in this:

Code:

[TABLE]
|-
| class="tcat" | Rank
| class="tcat" | Description
|-
| Untrained
| description goes here

[center]Untrained humans cannot use this skill[/center]
|-
| 1: Novice
| Selection of first focus + 2 starting abilities
|-
| 2: Practiced
| asdfasdfasdf
|-
| 3: Professional
| asdfasdgasd
|-
| 4: Expert
| asdfasdfasdf
|-
| 5: Master
| asdfasdfasd
|-
[/TABLE]

Issue Details

Issue Number 4670

Issue Type Bug

Project VaultWiki 4.x Series

Category BB-Code Parsing

Status Fixed

Priority 5 - Minor Bugs / Small Tweaks

Affected Version 4.0.10

Fixed Version 4.0.12

Milestone (none)

Software DependencyXenForo 1.x

License TypePaid

Users able to reproduce bug 0

Users unable to reproduce bug 0

Attachments 0

Assigned Users (none)

Tags (none)

June 6, 2016 4:54 PM

pegasus

VaultWiki Team

Removal of a single line break after CENTER and other alignment tags is an expected feature of those tags, based on the default behavior that vBulletin provides. If you use those tags inside a TABLE, it is only possible to prevent that default behavior in wiki content, because we have control over the parser that gets used. In non-wiki content, the standard parser is invoked in such a way that it is not possible to modify this behavior. Unfortunately, this is a quirk in the vBulletin software that editors must learn to work around.

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June 6, 2016 9:00 PM

Gossamer

Junior Member

Is that the same situation on XenForo? I'm running it on a XenForo forum, not VBulletin. I've never noticed any loss of lines when using alignment bbcodes on XF before.

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June 7, 2016 10:09 AM

pegasus

VaultWiki Team

The design of the alignment tags on XenForo is the same (it will remove line breaks after the tag). You usually will not notice the behavior, because the final HTML from the tag forces content after it onto the next line anyway, due to the rules of HTML block-level tags. However, since line breaks are used partly to determine the start of new cells or rows in the TABLE BB-Code, this behavior is undesirable.

It might be possible to circumvent the default behavior in XenForo, since XenForo is easier to modify. I will investigate that possibility.

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June 7, 2016 11:15 AM

pegasus

VaultWiki Team

I have managed to successfully suppress this behavior in XenForo. So you will not have to remember to skip lines when using certain tags inside TABLE, starting with VaultWiki 4.0.12.

In vBulletin, it is still necessary to skip lines when using those tags inside TABLE in non-wiki content.

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Issue: Table BBCode Parsing Bug

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