Troubles with [list].

Rydian · Sep 27, 2010

Where to start? XD It's totally screwy.

1 - It eats newlines. The entirety of the code eats newlines. Everywhere. NOT EVEN THE NEWLINE CHILDREN WERE SPARED.

Code:

Before a list.

[list]

[*]1

[*]2

[*]3

[/list]

After a list.

Post that, then edit it... and you'll see it ate many of the newlines.

QUOTE said:
Before a list.

1

2

3

After a list.

2 - You need THREE newlines to show just ONE space between items in a list. This is most likely related to the first...

Code:

[list] [*]1 [*]2 [/list] No space.

QUOTE said:

1

2

No space.

Code:

[list] [*]1 [*]2 [/list] Should be a space, but it's not there.

QUOTE said:

1

2

Should be a space, but it's not there.

Code:

[list] [*]1 [*]2 [/list] Should be two spaces, but it's one.

QUOTE said:

1

2

Should be two spaces, but it's one.

3 - Can't have an ordered list nested in an unordered list, because when the ordered one ends, the unordered container also ends prematurely.
CODE

Click to expand...

Frank.

John.

Frank's Son.

Frank's Daughter.

Billy.

Bob.

Click to expand...

QUOTE

Click to expand...

Frank.

John.

Frank's Son.

Frank's Daughter.

[*]Billy.[*]Bob.

And possibly more, but these are the easiest to pinpoint and reproduce.

Rydian · Sep 28, 2010

In addition (if I edit the original post I'll have to redo the spacing examples because it'll eat even more newlines) I found that the more nesting levels you have within

, the more newlines it eats.

This makes keeping lists of info very, very annoying.

tj_cool · Oct 3, 2010

Here's my examination of the problem. It probably doesn't help you all that much though. (Maybe it saves the Admins some time, I dunno

)

I've tried it out and it seems it does indeed eat newlines. In HTML, the only way to split them up is with tags, nothing else seems to work. It seems to work fine on IPB 3.0, but I couldn't find the substituted HTML in the ACP because it's in a php file that I can't access

After looking at the source, it seems they've added a behind each line:

Code:

before
[list][*]one[br][/br]
[*]two[br][/br]

[*]three[br][/br][/list]
after

Which does indeed parse correctly:

Code:

before
[list][*]one[br][/br]
[*]two[br][/br]

[*]three[br][/br][/list]
after

Though of course that'd be more typing work (unless an admin alters it to have the
s in the substituted HTML).

As for the List nesting, the code seems to be parsed incorrectly altogether:

Code:

[list][*]abc
[*]def
[list=1][*]123
[*]456
[/list]
[*]ghi
[/list]

is parsed to:
HTMLabc
def
123
456

ghi

^ as you can see, it ends the unordered list first, while it should end the ordered one.
Again, I had at look at the IPB v3 version and there they seem to have "fixed" it by only using unordered lists (they use a class to see what kind of list it eventually becomes).

Rydian · Nov 6, 2010

Bump.

tk_saturn · Nov 6, 2010

Rydian...

http://gbatemp.net/i-boardrules

QUOTE said:
Avoid bumping (reviving) old or new topics; they'll be replied to when they're replied to.

Given how many people have replied to the thread, I wouldn't go expecting it to be fixed. There's a few unfixed bugs in the parser, give up.

Rydian · Nov 7, 2010

This is a thread for the staff, not normal users (thus the bump to page 1).

Overlord Nadrian · Nov 7, 2010

That still doesn't justify your seemingly infinite hunger for a higher postcount.

Rydian · Nov 7, 2010

It's a single post (versus my over 4,700) after a month's wait (which is most definitely not flooding) in a thread in the site discussion about an annoying forum parsing bug.

Spamming for higher postcount, is it not.

Overlord Nadrian · Nov 7, 2010

Nearly half of your 'over 4700' are posts like these: useless spam.

Oh well, do as you wish, I'll stop whining.

p1ngpong · Nov 7, 2010

Ive got nothing against a legitimate bug report being bumped if it has had no admin response for a significant amount of time. A month without a response is long enough for a bump under these circumstances as far as I am concerned. We appreciate reports of this nature being made.

shaunj66 · Nov 9, 2010

Unfortunately unless Costello has time to dive into the sources necessary to fix this, this is one of those issues that will most likely be around until the next forum upgrade. Sorry.

Rydian · Nov 9, 2010

Alright, I'll just use/encourage color coding of sections instead of lists for now.

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