Author: giro720
Description:
The <poem compact> tag add an unecessary paragraph (<p>) after the first line and close it before the last one. For example
<poem compact>
One,
Two.
Three?
Four!
</poem>
returns
<div class="poem">One,<br />
<p>Two.<br />
Three?<br /></p>
Four!</div>
Version: unspecified
Severity: normal
The compact attribute for <poem> is going to be removed soon as part of work on T54061. No-one seems to know why it exists or exactly what it is meant to do, and it is clearly broken in its current implementation (it makes the poem less compact).
English Wikisource no longer uses it as it caused other issues which were resolved by simply using <poem>. This shouldn't be an issue