VisualEditor: Parsoid's render of {{reflist}} has no context, so no references appear; similarly, edited templates inside structures, look odd on edit
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	Mdennis-WMF
	Jul 10 2013, 11:59 PM

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I've not yet done a lot with refs and reflists (a lot of my work is stub-sorting where it rarely crops up) but....

Editing Howard Wilson Elementary School I changed the number of columns of {{reflist}} from 2 to 1 (there's only one ref and it looks daft over 2 cols). The whole reflist disappeared, while I stayed in VE - see edit summary. On saving the page, it was there all present and correct.

This is one of several instances where VE alarms the editor: if it's supposed to be a Visual Editor, it needs to reflect changes made and not give the impression that the template has been deleted. Worrying enough for an experienced editor - totally offputting for someone new.

Apologies if this exact problem, or a more generalised case, is already tracked. PamD 16:38, 9 July 2013 (UTC)

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Open		None	T53146 VisualEditor: Parsoid's render of {{reflist}} has no context, so no references appear; similarly, edited templates inside structures, look odd on edit
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Resolved		Krinkle	T33597 Render references list in multiple columns based on the number of items
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Resolved		Jdforrester-WMF	T160362 Convert reference lists over to `responsive` on nowiki
Resolved		Jdforrester-WMF	T160609 Convert reference lists over to `responsive` on frwiki
Resolved		Jdforrester-WMF	T160844 Convert reference lists over to `responsive` on lawiki
Resolved		Jdforrester-WMF	T160932 Convert reference lists over to `responsive` on itwiki
Resolved		Jdforrester-WMF	T160933 Convert reference lists over to `responsive` on enwiktionary
Resolved		None	T160971 Make a list of wikis that will probably want to have <references responsive /> enabled by default
Resolved		Jdforrester-WMF	T161307 Convert reference lists over to `responsive` on ca.wiki
Resolved		DatGuy	T161804 Convert reference lists over to `responsive` on hewiki
Resolved		Jdforrester-WMF	T162145 Convert reference lists over to `responsive` on bgwiki
Resolved		Dereckson	T163074 Make Reference Lists 'responsive' by default on elwiki
Resolved		Framawiki	T164230 Convert reference lists over to `responsive` on ilowiki
Resolved		Jdforrester-WMF	T165247 Convert reference lists over to `responsive` on mswiki
Resolved		Jdforrester-WMF	T173176 Convert reference lists over to `responsive` on enwiki
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Resolved		Esanders	T189658 Convert reference lists over to `responsive` on ptwiki
Resolved		Framawiki	T193491 Convert reference lists over to `responsive` on kowiki
Resolved		matmarex	T281622 Convert reference lists over to `responsive` on svwiki
Resolved		matmarex	T315333 Convert reference lists over to `responsive` on plwiki
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Event Timeline

• bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Medium.Nov 22 2014, 1:42 AM

• bzimport added a project: VisualEditor-EditingTools.

• bzimport set Reference to bz51146.

Mdennis-WMF created this task.Jul 10 2013, 11:59 PM

Confirmed. This one's especially annoying given how common {{reflist}} is. See also bug 50075 (which I was no longer able to reproduce).

This will be fixed when we switch over to Parsoid rendering the templates mid-edit rather than rely on PHP parser.

Bug 67856 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

(In reply to James Forrester from comment #2)

This will be fixed when we switch over to Parsoid rendering the templates
mid-edit rather than rely on PHP parser.

As follow-up, right now we don't have a way to give context to Parsoid, so when parsing a template that generates part of a wider structure – e.g. a cell, row or section of a table – we just give the template itself, contextless.

This means that Parsoid (correctly) returns a fostered-out block, which we (correctly) splice into the location, meaning the document looks very odd. However, it saves fine.

In the future we'd need a way to tell Parsoid that "this is an update to transclusion id=1234 in structure id=4321" or something so Parsoid has context; I assume this will need to wait until Parsoid puts GUIDs into the source for us.

Jdforrester-WMF added a project: VisualEditor.Nov 23 2014, 10:48 PM

Jdforrester-WMF moved this task from To Triage to Freezer on the VisualEditor board.Nov 24 2014, 1:26 AM

Jdforrester-WMF merged a task: T59271: VisualEditor:Template "reflist" does not get added immediately on the page.Dec 2 2014, 12:41 AM

Jdforrester-WMF added subscribers: • Cmcmahon, Ryasmeen.

Jdforrester-WMF merged a task: T59277: VisualEditor:The reflist of the page disappears after adding a reflist to an image.Feb 11 2015, 5:27 PM

matmarex merged a task: T91654: References disappear after change of their "Références" template call (<references /> tag not used).Mar 5 2015, 9:41 PM

matmarex added subscribers: Aklapper, Nnemo.

Negative24 subscribed.Mar 27 2015, 5:35 PM

Jdforrester-WMF merged a task: T105362: VisualEditor does not preview changes to references.Jul 9 2015, 4:59 PM

Jdforrester-WMF added subscribers: Esanders, He7d3r.

Where is the bug to move all the functionality over to the <references> tag making {{reflist}} redundant?

He7d3r merged a task: T69856: VisualEditor: Table cell templates are editable, but their re-rendering is broken.Jul 9 2015, 5:01 PM