How does one add a onebox inside a list?

[rokejulianlockhart (Mr. Beedell, Roke Julian Lockhart)]

Despite the automatically hyperlinkified URI having enough space around it (one line) to be a block element, it doesn’t oneboxify, since:

1. Text

   https://example.com

   Text

…becomes:

---

1. Text

   https://example.com

   Text

---

Context

Pre-compiled Linux Unreal Engine installation

[jahan_gagan]

Try rebuilding the HTML of the post once — that often fixes issues where links don’t onebox properly:

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[JammyDodger]

@rokejulianlockhart

having enough space around it (one line)

I think the spaces in front of it would make it an inline onebox and not a full one. I’m not sure I know a workaround.

@jahan_gagan

Try rebuilding the HTML of the post once — that often fixes issues where links don’t onebox properly:

Did that work for you?

[rokejulianlockhart (Mr. Beedell, Roke Julian Lockhart)]

@JammyDodger

I think the spaces in front of it would make it an inline onebox and not a full one. I’m not sure I know a workaround.

@JammyDodger, that’s what I see at every instance I’ve tried thus far (about 8, in total).

@JammyDodger

@jahan_gagan

Try rebuilding the HTML of the post once — that often fixes issues where links don’t onebox properly:

Did that work for you?

@janan_gagan, I don’t possess TL4 permission anywhere… If any of you are able to rebuild the HTML5 content of my post at /1, that would confirm whether it works. However, per the aforementioned, I’m doubtful.

In the meantime, I’ve converted this to a Feature post, since it appears to currently be impossible.

Thanks, regardless.

[renato (Renato Atilio)]

Yes, there’s a specific logic in our markdown-it tokens that forces links to be considered inline oneboxes in cases that are not top level links (ie. not inside any list/blockquote/etc)

[rokejulianlockhart (Mr. Beedell, Roke Julian Lockhart)]

@renato, they can still oneboxify inside <details>, though. Seems especially strange to permit that, but not any other block element. What’s the rationale?

[renato (Renato Atilio)]

There’s no explicit rationale, it’s just that raw HTML is seen by markdown-it in a flat way, it doesn’t try to infer the nesting from tags being opened/closed.

Raw Html node

Top level onebox

Raw Html node

[rokejulianlockhart (Mr. Beedell, Roke Julian Lockhart)]

@renato, seems to me that, insofar as the CSS defines the element that encapsulates a URI as a block element, oneboxification should occur; I can’t think of any problematic edge cases.