Last modified: 2013-07-16 16:53:41 UTC
Created attachment 12791 [details] Screenshot of odd rendering when using {{#tag:ref}} https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/Basic_example_worksheet?veaction=edit See attachment, [11] renders as span instead of as <sup> (like [10]) and as such isn'y styled correctly (text is too big).
This is confusing because the lack of superscript makes these refs look like an external link. This happens with all pages that use [[Template:Geographic reference]], which the English template page says is "a very large number of Wikipedia articles", and that template exists in 15 other Wikipedias including a few on the 'maybe' list for 22 July deployment. Example in the wild: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Branford,_Florida?veaction=edit
Parsoid incorrectly renders references as <span>s. The ones directly in the main documented are rendered as <sup>s by VE, but we don't control the ones in templates and other generated content (and #tag is a ParserFunction).
(In reply to comment #2) > Parsoid incorrectly renders references as <span>s. The ones directly in the > main documented are rendered as <sup>s by VE, but we don't control the ones > in > templates and other generated content (and #tag is a ParserFunction). Ugh, didn't see James's summary edit. Moving back to VE. We could probably add CSS to make <span class="reference"> render as a superscript, or munge it in some other way. Though ideally I'd like us to convince Parsoid to render references as <sup>s the way the PHP parser does.
Change 73980 had a related patch set uploaded by Esanders: Fake superscript style for references generated as spans https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/73980
Change 73980 merged by jenkins-bot: Fake superscript style for references generated as spans https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/73980
Fixed and will go out later today.
