Extra and tags after block elements

Just out of curiosity, do you have line breaks in the editor between the different tags like:

[if-multi-day][title][/if-multi-day]
[when]

I noticed recently that the editor seems to be picking up those line breaks the WP style and injecting tags for them. We are currently discussing a strategy to stop that from happening.

Hi Nick,

As far as I know I don’t have extra line breaks in the code. I went and removed all the possible ones I could find, even deleting the characters either side of possible line breaks and re-typing them in. I think my code is actually a single line without any breaks.

Also if I change the <h5> </h5> wrapped around the elements to <span> </span> tags the additional <p> <br /> </p> doesn’t happen.

Related to this is the fact that if you use a <h4> </h4> around the first element in the editor – as I had in the past – then there is a <p> <br /></p> inserted before it. So you get the square bullet point with a blank line followed by the event title wrapped in a <h4> tag. Of course I can remove the bullet point with CSS, but the blank line I can’t.

I am not sure if this is a WP editor or Simple Calendar issue, but either way it’s frustrating. The test site is working with WP4.4 and Simple Calendar 3.0.11

To add… I just checked in the database with phpMyAdmin for the calendar entry. It does not show any additional tags or hidden CR/LF type codes.

Does it do the same thing when installed on a default theme? Maybe try running through this to see if there are any possible conflicts just to be sure:

https://docs.simplecalendar.io/troubleshooting-theme-plugin-widget-conflicts/

Think I’m getting there.

I switched to the standard WP 2012 theme, deactivated all plugins except Simple Calendar 3.0.11 – still the results were the same with extra <p> <br /> </p> tags around certain elements. So I did some more testing, and found a different behaviour of the conditional tags – or a different treatment of them by WP or the plugin.

In the past I would have a code like this below with no line breaks or returns

[if-multi-day]<h4>[start-date] - [end-date]</h4>[/if-multi-day][if-single-day]<h4>[start-date]</h4>[/if-single-day][if-description]<h5>[description]</h5>[/if-description]

However if I change to code like this below

<h4>[if-multi-day][start-date] - [end-date][/if-multi-day][if-single-day][start-date][/if-single-day] </h4><h5>[if-description][description][/if-description]</h5>

It does seem to improve things. It is as if the conditional test being false will result in the output of an extra set of <p><br /></p> tags before the heading tags. However it does result in a blank <h5> </h5> appearing in the output when there is no event description. Whereas in the past I would get no tags using my original formatting with the heading tag inside the conditional test.

Ok thanks for the additional info. I am going to look into the code a bit more to see if maybe there is something I missed that might be trying to add these.

There will be changes concerning this in 3.0.13.