BBCode formatting issue when migrating from Vanilla to Discourse

[Christian_Suntay]

There is some formatting issue. Data data is from Vanilla. I have bbcode installed. What am I missing?

[chrispanag (Christos Panagiotakopoulos)]

We have the same problem, I think the bbcode plugin doesn’t support nested bbcode tags.

[Christian_Suntay]

hope they can give us answers

[Falco]

I suggest remapping BB Code use into proper markdown.

[Christian_Suntay]

sir what do you mean by remapping?

[Christian_Suntay]

how can we remap gem bbcode?

[pfaffman (Jay Pfaffman)]

There is a section of the importer that replaces stuff in the original posts with . . . different stuff. You want to make it convert [b] -> <b> and [/b] -> </b>. Like that.

[Christian_Suntay]

but works fine

[pfaffman (Jay Pfaffman)]

You’d need to show the text that DOES NOT work fine from the original post you showed. When you do, put ``` on a line before and after the raw text of the post that is not displaying as you wish.

[Christian_Suntay]

The problem is with nested bbcode. Do i still need to remap? or discourse just cant handle nested bbcode ?

[justin (Justin DiRose)]

As mentioned above the bbcode plugin doesn’t handle nested tags. Discourse doesn’t handle much of any bbcode out of the box.