BBCode [quote] tag and mixed newlines

[Philibre]

Hello.

On a forum using Discourse 2.2.0.beta2, while writing PM or public posts, I’ve got some strange behavior with quotes and newlines ; “strange” for someone used to BBcode on classical phpBB-like forums. Is this a bug or a desired/designed behaviour ?

I’ll try to reproduce it here (2.2.0.beta5 now).

The syntax correctly displayed is either:

[quote]Without any newline between opening and closing tags.[/quote]

or

[quote]
With newlines after the opening tag and before the closing [/code]tag.
[/quote]

But if both forms are mixed, then it’s not “correctly” displayed (“correctly” for someone used to BBcode on classical forums) :

[quote]
With newline after opening tag only.[/quote]
 
[quote]With newline before closing tag only.
[/quote]

is “badly” displayed like this

With newline after opening tag only.[/quote]

[quote]With newline before closing tag only.

and

[quote]With newline before closing tag only.
[/quote]

[quote]
With newline after opening tag only.[/quote]

is even more “badly” displayed without interpretation

[quote]With newline before closing tag only.
[/quote]

[quote]
With newline after opening tag only.[/quote]

[zogstrip (Régis HANOL)]

Yes, this is a known limitation of our parser. [quote] always require newlines before and after to work.

[Philibre]

@zogstrip

Yes, this is a known limitation of our parser.

OK, thanks for your answer.

[quote] always require newlines before and after to work.

Well, except in this case :
[quote]blabla[/quote]

blabla

[codinghorror (Jeff Atwood)]

This is covered in several other existing topics. You cannot mix line endings with BBCode [quote]. Either all on one line, or all on different lines.

[A_B]

Still relevant!

[/quote]Your quotation and post will be broken if you continue your answer here in 2022.

More information about this limitation will be helpful in the editor. Preview will show broken quote but without “why this happened” and without “how to fix quotation” text.