vBulletin-style [list] tags

[ackwell]

As per @marksyzm's suggestion, [list] tags should be implemented with a parameter to designate the type and styling of the list (e.g. [list=1] for list-style-type: decimal;, and so on.)

[marksyzm]

This is worth a look :) https://www.vbulletin.org/forum/misc.php?do=bbcode

I'll see if I can fit in some time tomorrow but shout if you've started on this already

[marksyzm]

Yeah just noticed that phpbb use it too: https://www.phpbb.com/community/faq.php?mode=bbcode

These are the main 2 forum operators you see around the web. I run www.teoti.com and have done for about 8 years now and that was converted from vBulletin to a bespoke set up and is rewritten at the moment, and the other guy ran it for 5 years before that :)

[marksyzm]

So here's what I've got worked out - either one of 3 things. Either:

• We need take out the list block regex check altogether along with the entire block for formatting, and create an option for a particular tag of any string i.e. [*], [li] that gives the same behaviour as non breaking tags in <p> in HTML5 - you just check that the next match is either of the same string i.e. another [*] tag or a closing tag of any sort. This would be difficult when it comes to finding open/close tags within a list though, so certainly not perfect.
• We add an option to a tag to indicate that its contents have the breaking behaviour where a matching tag or closing tag starts a new tag. I think to get this sweet spot, we would have to make the first point optional. OR...
• We implement proper HTML markup, where some tags behave as non-breaking tags. So a [*] tag or a [li] tag with no closers will simply create a non-self closing <li> tag, so we could just do this:

[list=1]
[*]This is my list
[*]Of stuff
[/list]

And that becomes:

<ul>
<li>This is my list
<li>Of stuff
</ul>

And that is, in fact, perfectly valid markup according to the W3C standard.

I'd go with option 3 😀

[marksyzm]

I think that would also fix #7