A few strange behaviours or bugs?

[Jim Byrne]

Thanks Michel,

I'll apply you fix - and pass your note to the other editors.

Keep up the good work. :-)

All the best,
Jim


on 10/30/04 11:39 PM, Michel Fortin at michel.fortin at michelf.com wrote:

> Hi Jim,
> 
> This is because you have nested div tags. Markdown (the syntax)
> currently has a limitation with this. If you want to nest block-level
> tags you must indent the content like this:
> 
> <div>
> <div> -- Indented div tag
> </div>
> </div>
> 
> When Markdown encounter a block tag, it simply consider it as one block
> until it finds a closing tag on the beginning of the line. The first
> closing div tag in the previous example is indented so it doesn't count
> as the end of the block; the second one does.
> 
> If you do not indent the inner div you get the following (incorrect)
> interpretation by Markdown:
> 
> <div>  -- Start of block
> <div>
> </div> -- End of block
> </div> -- Paragraph?
> 
> So you must indent closing div tags that are inside another div, or
> else strange things happen.
> 
> I'm happy to tell you that this indentation rule will become irrelevant
> in a future version of Markdown and PHP Markdown.
> 
> 
> Michel Fortin
> michel.fortin at michelf.com
> http://www.michelf.com/
> 
> Le 30 oct. 2004, à 17:01, Jim Byrne a écrit :
> 
>> Hi Michel,
>> 
>> Thanks for the quick reply.
>> 
>> I apologize for my lack of detail.
>> 
>> Markdown was not used to enter the source on these pages - it was all
>> entered by hand as HTML. I have had a read through the pages you
>> mention -
>> and noted the advice about putting blank lines before and after block
>> level
>> elements - unfortunately that does not seem prevent the extra
>> paragraph tags
>> being added.
>> 
>> For example, in the page at http://www.gawds.org/show.php?contentid=97
>> the
>> entire content (added via a form) is bracketed by <div> and </div>.
>> When I
>> space out the HTML to ensure there is blank lines separating these
>> block
>> level elements - the final </div> is processed by Markdown and becomes
>> <p></div></p>.
>> 
>> Please prompt me for further detail if required.
>> 
>> Thanks - I appreciate your help.
>> 
>> All the best,
>> Jim
> 
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