ticket id 000030

status closed

priority ???

assigned to Waylan

Reported by: Tyler Lesmann Component:

markdown creates em and strong elements without text nodes. This causes unintentional wacky rendering throughout the remainder of the page.

Try this and you will see what I mean.

>>> import markdown
>>> em_test = "** <-- This shouldn't be a em without a text node"
>>> markdown.markdown(em_test)
u"<p><em /> &lt;-- This shouldn't be a em without a text node</p>"

I've have fixed this with a postprocessor.

import re
BAD_TAGS_RE = re.compile(r'<(?=em|strong).*?/>')

class FixEmptiesPostprocessor(Postprocessor):
    def run(self, text):
        text = "".join(BAD_TAGS_RE.split(text))
        return text

Resolution

fixed