noticed when I had typed this emoticon:
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and on ID comments too
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This seems to be an incorrect translation of markdown to html tags. Some, but not all, versions of markdown use the \ character at the end of a line to insert a line break. (See here for a discussion.) However, I think the html break tag should be <br> (without the slash, ref), so that may be why it is showing up as characters rather than as an invisible line break.
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interesting. it does appear to be translating a \ at the end of a line as a line break. so it is adding a <br /> tag in place of the \. (the fact that it’s creating a <br /> vs a <br> tag doesn’t bother me. <br /> is acceptable code.) but it is doing something weird, particularly in my example below.
i’m creating 2 comments that are exactly the same, except the first has an extra <hr /> (horizontal rule) in the middle of it:
note the inconsistent behavior below the horizontal rule in that first comment:
here’s the html for the first comment (note that only the first line is encapsulated within <p> </p>):
here’s the html for the second comment (note that all lines are encapsulated within <p> </p>):
so it must be trying to encapsulate everything within <p> </p> first, but the <hr /> is unexpected within <p> </p>. so everything after the <hr /> gets left outside the <p> </p>. beyond that, i’m not sure (without looking at the code) why it fails to make the translated <br /> html rather than text, and also why it fails to translate markdown outside of the <p> </p>.
@pisum, you are correct as usual: the slash in <br> makes no difference:
renders as:
I note that in iNat, markdown code for an explicit line break is probably unneeded, as the comment editor already interprets the “enter” key as a line break. The third part of my example shows that ending a line in \ not only adds the <br /> text but also deletes the original line break.
Will add to my weekly report.
Note also this related bug report: https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/what-is-the-use-of-in-comments-and-why-does-it-add-br-to-the-end-of-words/17567
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This should be fixed now.
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this does seem more or less resolved. there is still some underlying inconsistency with stuff getting left outside of <p> </p> after a <hr> tag, but the markdown in such cases seems to be interpreted correctly now. so the comments display correctly, and you wouldn’t notice any inconsistencies unless looking at the html code.