dkeats

THanks, though I think this is a different bug, they are all brought to light by the change to CSS. The one I see is the BLOCK EDITOR inserting bad HTML like…

<p><!– /wp:paragraph –></p>
<p><!– wp:shortcode –><br />

and doing this even when the user has not pressed enter or shift enter.

I have dug into this some more, and this is definitely a bug in the editor. How does one report bugs in the editor?

I have just done some tests, and it looks like this is a bug in the block editor. The empty paragraphs are being inserted between each block. The only way to get to a (+) on the block editor is to press enter, bit aside from giving access to the block editor to change the next content, this inserts <p><!– /wp:paragraph –></p> before the next element. This is unexpected behaviour and is surely a bug. Further to that, using HTML tags for spacing is already bad HTML practice.

Hehe, yea, but it is not really solved. It is hidden. I would prefer it if those codes were not inserted in the first place. That is the real bug.

But thanks for your help. It is appreciated.

It is not a feature, don’t call it that please. Anything that uses HTML for spacing is a bug not a feature, and whatever put the code there is broken, and whoever decided to “FIX” it created a massive mess.

I would rather run an old version of WordPress and never have another update than have to deal with great new features that are so ill considered.

But why is the editor inserting <p> tags in the first place. That is surely not HTML good practice?

https://learnthebirds.com/event/urban-raptors/

But how would something like this get into any reasonably formatted HTML? Using empty paragraphs for spacing like this surely is not good HTML practices. Then it must be the editor that is broken.

<p><!– /wp:paragraph –></p>
<p><!– wp:shortcode –><br />

Ah, I put that code in the wrong place.
Now it works. But it still sucks that something so insane gets into a released version of WP!

• This reply was modified 4 years ago by dkeats.

Perfect, that is exactly what I was looking for.
regards