Nested blockquotes unallowed?

[anonymousbugger]

I want to put nested blockquotes -- which is allowed in XHTML 1.0 (all flavors) -- into a post. However, the blockquote tag is being closed automatically before the nested blockquote tag.

The problem is in the wpautop() function in functions-formatting.php

The problem can be circumvented by disabling "WordPress should correct invalidly nested XHTML automatically" under "Options > Writing"

Of course a fix would be preferable to avoidance.

Actually, ignore my previous comment, it's in balanceTags() on line 328.

Honestly, balanceTags() ("WordPress should correct invalidly nested XHTML automatically") is more trouble than it is worth for people who know how to close tags and want to do more than <em> and <strong> markup.

well what about this ?

balanceTags() in its present incarnation will likely never ensure 100% XHTML-ization of posts. In this example, you trip an uncommon(?) situation where a tag is allowed to be immediately nested within itself. balanceTags() already allows for this for [div]. I've attached a patch that also allows it for [blockquote]. Any other situations like this that anyone can think of?

I suppose 'span' might be another immediately nestable tag. I've attached a revised patch, bug1170_functions-formatting2.diff which adds it. I've also shorted two condition statements (which are within a while loop) by defining $single_tags and $nestable_tags arrays at the start of the function and using in_array() for the checks. Hopefully that's slightly more efficient, but at the very least should clarify what it's doing.

edited on: 04-22-05 13:57

bug1170_functions-formatting2.diff looks good.

Works for me, running 2.1.

Unless you mean the quicktags (the formatting buttons), but that's clumsy to get around.

This is not fixed. If you're unable to recreate this (which really isn't have hard, as all you do is nest a blockquote within another), here's a simple how to:

1. Create a new post
2. As the content, put <blockquote><blockquote><p>Can you quote me?</p></blockquote><p>Look, I can quote you!</p></blockquote>
3. Save.
4. Observe it being changed to <blockquote></blockquote><blockquote><p>Can you quote me?</p></blockquote><p>Look, I can quote you!</p>

On what version does that hapen? I just tried your snippet on trunk:

In:

<blockquote><blockquote><p>Can you quote me?</p></blockquote><p>Look, I can quote you!</p></blockquote>

Out:

<blockquote><blockquote>
<p>Can you quote me?</p>
</blockquote>
<p>Look, I can quote you!</p>
</blockquote>

Which appears correct to me.

2.0.10, 2.2, and trunk, in the text editor.

This still exists in 2.2. If a post runs through BlanaceTags, it removes the nesting on BlockQuotes.

This patch also works great for fixing it.

Jamie Holly (intoxination) provided more information to the wp-hackeres mailing list. Thank you!

It still exists

in 2.2. Basically if you have a post that contains nested quotes it will remove the nesting once it runs through balanceTags. For example this:

Hey Now

<blockquote>Your
<blockquote>An</blockquote>
All</blockquote>
Star

Running through balanceTags changes to this:

<p>Hey Now</p>
<blockquote><p>Your</p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p>An</p>
</blockquote>
<p>All</p>
<p>Star</p>

I manually applied the patch attached to the ticket to 2.2 and it did fix it.

The problem occurs when saving a post with "WordPress should correct invalidly nested XHTML automatically" checked. Since the content goes through the balanceTags filter on content_save_pre it only applies at save/publish time.

That explains why I couldn't reproduce it, as "WordPress should correct invalidly nested XHTML automatically" is turned of on my blog.

I've confirmed the bug and also the fix.

The patch I attached is a refresh of the already exiting one against trunk.

(In [5623]) Fix nestable HTML, including <blockquote>'s. Props anonymousbugger (!) and Nazgul. fixes #1170