Severe markdown rendering problems on ask.openstack.org

[Lars Kellogg-Stedman]

There are significant differences between the Markdown processor used to render the preview of a question and the Markdown processor used to actually render the question after it has been saved. Please see the following question for a demonstration:

https://ask.openstack.org/en/question/10771/there-are-markdown-rendering-problems-with-askopenstackorg/

This can lead to poorly rendered questions and can even prevent questions from displaying completely. The fact that these problems do not show up in the preview is especially frustrating.

[Lars Kellogg-Stedman (larsks)]

Possibly related: https://bugs.launchpad.net/openstack-community/+bug/1271040

[Lars Kellogg-Stedman (larsks)]

Attached is a screenshot of the problem in which questions and answers do not display in their entirety.

[Stefano Maffulli (smaffulli)]

That is so strange: I have edited the question and the answers on https://ask.openstack.org/en/question/6540/migration-from-essex-to-havana/ and the ... disappeared. Now I can see the full questions and answers on my browsers (tried Firefox, Firefox private mode, Chromium and Chromium incognito).

[Evgeny Fadeev (evgeny-fadeev)]

Mostly I think this is a duplicate of https://bugs.launchpad.net/openstack-community/+bug/1271040, now fixed.

However there is a difference between the previewer's display of the content and the rendered content, however this issue
is separate from the one linked above.

[Lars Kellogg-Stedman (larsks)]

In fact, whatever is rendering the content isn't just different, it's demonstrably broken. You can see that the rendered version of my sample post at https://ask.openstack.org/en/question/10771/there-are-markdown-rendering-problems-with-askopenstackorg/ is horribly corrupted.

[Evgeny Fadeev (evgeny-fadeev)]

Yes, this one looks really bad, I will try to resolve today.

[Evgeny Fadeev (evgeny-fadeev)]

Disabled the "autolinking", which was interfering with markdown. I will take a second look tomorrow.

[Evgeny Fadeev (evgeny-fadeev)]

I believe this is resolved now.

[Evgeny Fadeev (evgeny-fadeev)]

There are other issues related to the difference between the markdown parser on the backend and in the previewer.

This will have to be a separate project to re-implement the js version to mimic the backend version precisely.