Alfrеdo Posted December 30, 2008 Posted December 30, 2008 I would like to see support for this[/], which is supported by some other forums. It makes it easier to deal with bbCodes.
imJexs Posted January 1, 2009 Posted January 1, 2009 As that would be pretty neat, it might get far to confusing if you have a few different BBcodes ending at different times on one line of text.
bfarber Posted January 1, 2009 Posted January 1, 2009 That is a pattern matching bug ridden nightmare waiting to happen, and I don't see how it would be beneficialunless I'm missing something. Why not just use ?
Alfrеdo Posted January 1, 2009 Posted January 1, 2009 Laziness would be a factor I guess, not having to type [/spoiler ], [/color ], ... makes it pretty easy ( [/] is shorter). When nesting tags, you don't need to see in which order they were opened to close them. Once you've been using the above method, you don't want to go back. :) Though I can understand it may be a nightmare to implement, but it was just a suggestion of course.
henke37 Posted January 1, 2009 Posted January 1, 2009 Come on, if you don't allow overlapping tags, it is no issue at all to support. Need I remind you that if you want to succeed in that valid html goal, you can not allow overlapping tags.
Mark Posted January 1, 2009 Posted January 1, 2009 Come on, if you don't allow [b]over[u]lapp[/b]ing[/u] tags, it is no issue at all to support. Need I remind you that if you want to succeed in that valid html goal, you can not allow overlapping tags. But if we want to succeed in that "pleasing customers" goal, we must allow overlapping tags. Most people who post on forums have little care for what the W3C says the formatting of their post should look like.
Brandon D Posted January 1, 2009 Posted January 1, 2009 :lol: Yeah, stop overlapping tags, see how tickets, bug tracker, and this feedback forum reacts :P
Alfrеdo Posted January 1, 2009 Posted January 1, 2009 What do you mean by, overlapping tags? Using a list tag inside a colour tag?
Mark Posted January 1, 2009 Posted January 1, 2009 What do you mean by, overlapping tags? Using a list tag inside a colour tag? Not necessarily, it's when you start 2 tags, but close tag 1 before tag 2. For example:[b]Hello ev[i]ery[/b]one[/i] XHTML doesn't allow this because it's an application of XML which is a strict language and only allows a sort of "tree" structure of elements. HTML is an application of SGML which is not always strict. Technically, if you want to XHTML valid you'd need to do this:[b]Hello ev[/b][i][b]ery[/b]one[/i] Which as you can see, is very confusing.
Alfrеdo Posted January 1, 2009 Posted January 1, 2009 I see what you mean. Trying to overlap tags at the other forum gives me this result:[b]Hello every[/b]one with eryone in italic. Looks like they don't support overlapping tags either then. I've never used them so I wouldn't miss it, but I understand why you can't have both. [b]Hello ev[i]ery[/b]one[/i] would become: [b]Hello ev[i]ery[/]one[/]Hello everyoneHello everyone
henke37 Posted January 2, 2009 Posted January 2, 2009 I am quite sure that HTML doesn't allow overlapping elements either. Also, I have yet to find a real use for overlapping elements, in my limited experience, it only looks bad.
EliteKiller Posted January 2, 2009 Posted January 2, 2009 W3C Validator says 2 Errors:<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <title>Test Document</title> </head> <body> <b>1<u>2</b>3<i>4</u>5</i> </body> </html> Output:12345
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