Text formatting in Flarum

jordanjay29

BlackSheep With my super duper mod powers, I spy a little

[center]In my opinion, `[center]` is the way to go.

BlackSheep

@jordanjay29 @JoshyPHP

Sadly,

jordanjay29

BBCodes usually need an [/ending] code.

Try [center]Your stuff to be centered[/center]. It's what I did in this post.

BlackSheep

jordanjay29 ?
JoshyPHP I'm using the dev-master bbcode extension.

JoshyPHP

BlackSheep It's enabled on the most recent version of the BBCode extension. I don't know whether it's been released. @Toby?

datitisev

BlackSheep Dominion tried this in a Sandbox (https://discuss.flarum.org/d/2318-centering) and we discovered that Markdown inside BBCode's [center][/center] doesn't work at all.

For example, [center][How about a link with Markdown?](I Am A Link)[/center] translates to the following:
center][How about a link with Markdown?[/center]

Dominion said it has been mentioned before, though I have no idea.

jordanjay29

You tried other content? I'm just wondering if its taking exception to that image tag. Try the traditional [img] or some text?

BlackSheep

jordanjay29 Yep, does nothing at all. ?

Toby

@BlackSheep Delete everything inside your storage/cache folder + your storage/formatter folder, then reload and try again.

BlackSheep

Toby It changes nothing. ?

datitisev doesn't work at all

@Dominion

So we can't center an image ?

JoshyPHP

Markdown works inside of BBCodes but in the case of links, both markup languages use square brackets which makes it ambiguous in places. I'll look into it in case there's a good way to handle it but otherwise you'll have to use [url] inside of [center] if they are in the same paragraph.

Dominion

Or this seems to work too ... sort of ...

[/img] ?

[center][img=http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-fvjQf9OEwx4/VXxALFcZ_RI/AAAAAAAAAHU/Pgf1VKx7ddc/s640/6.jpg][/img][/center]

BlackSheep Looks like what it really wants is a closing tag. It can render the nested tag okay, but it can't render the enclosing tags if the nested tag isn't properly closed. So for now, the method of datitisev is the way to go.

EDIT: So if you want a centered image that's also a link ...

[center][url=http://www.mrbean.com][img]http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-fvjQf9OEwx4/VXxALFcZ_RI/AAAAAAAAAHU/Pgf1VKx7ddc/s640/6.jpg[/img][/url][/center]

JoshyPHP Is there something that could be done to fix it so unclosed tags of the [img] and [url] types won't prevent the enclosing tags from rendering?

datitisev

BlackSheep You can, but you would have to use [img] instead of Markdown.

BlackSheep

datitisev Maybe i'm cursed.

datitisev

BlackSheep Let me try:

[center][img]http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-fvjQf9OEwx4/VXxALFcZ_RI/AAAAAAAAAHU/Pgf1VKx7ddc/s640/6.jpg[/img][/center]

Dominion

JoshyPHP I was going by the examples by BlackSheep ... and after his latest post, it seems that the unclosed tag wasn't the cause after all. So ... cool! and thanks!

Franz

Dominion Pretty sure that's because BBCode is not HTML. No self-closing goodness for you. ?

BlackSheep

Dominion

I don't know anymore. ?

JoshyPHP

Dominion Is there something that could be done to fix it so unclosed tags of the [img] and [url] types won't prevent the enclosing tags from rendering?

That's already the case most of the time, unless you're talking about something else? For instance, the following works even though it's missing [/img] and [/url]. That's not a usage I recommend, though.

[center][url=http://www.mrbean.com][img=http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-fvjQf9OEwx4/VXxALFcZ_RI/AAAAAAAAAHU/Pgf1VKx7ddc/s640/6.jpg][/center]

Dominion

Franz I've seen sites that implement BBcode that way ... but if that's nonstandard, then it's no big deal.

Dominion

Hmm ... neither do I ... that really should work!

BlackSheep

Dominion Maybe after the next beta ? That's not vital for now, i'll wait ?

Dominion

BlackSheep It could be ...

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