[Wikitech-l] Re: [Bug 1569] New: HTML comments in wikitext can cause extra spaces in rendered HTML

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On Mon, 21 Feb 2005 05:00:19 +0000 (UTC), bugzilla-daemon@mail.wikimedia.org bugzilla-daemon@mail.wikimedia.org wrote:

http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1569

       Summary: HTML comments in wikitext can cause extra spaces in
                rendered HTML
       Product: MediaWiki
       Version: 1.4beta6
      Platform: All
           URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madge_Oberholtzer
    OS/Version: All
        Status: NEW
      Severity: minor
      Priority: Low
     Component: Page rendering
    AssignedTo: wikibugs-l@wikipedia.org
    ReportedBy: jbonham@mail.utm.utoronto.ca

Wikitext such as:

Madge then purchased mercuric chloride tablets under the guise of shopping for something else, <!-- my sources disagree whether it was a hat or makeup --silsor --> and consumed them in another attempt at [[suicide]].

can result in two spaces being visibly rendered in the HTML, one of which is a &#160; as follows:

Madge then purchased mercuric chloride tablets under the guise of shopping for something else,&#160; and consumed them

This is a bug because the default behaviour of HTML rendering agents is to ignore extra whitespace, but the presence of the &#160; prevents this.

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