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).
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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
Change 73980 merged by jenkins-bot:
Fake superscript style for references generated as spans