Two bug reports – fix appreciated
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The Verse block, this has a limit to how many characters fit on each line. If your text happens to hit that limit *exactly* on any of the lines, a scroll bar appears at the bottom of the block, which is very annoying.
The second bug concerns the Separator block, when used as dots. Up until last winter these dots appeared neatly aligned on a single row, one after the other. Since then however, they’ve all been jumbled. Each dot appears on its own line, with the first offset compared to the other two.
These bugs appear with the twentyfourteen theme, on mobile as well as desktop, and have both persisted throughout 2021. It would be great if you could pass them to the developer team – at least to see that they’re on their to-do list.
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Hi there:
I took a look at your site and I’m not seeing any blocks that are showing these issues.
Could you give us a link to a post or posts where this is occurring so we can take a closer look?
Also, the block editor isn’t developed by us here at WordPress.com – it’s made by the open-source WordPress project team. We can report these bugs to them in their GitHub repository, but we need examples of the problem and determine if it’s an actual bug or a conflict with your theme.
Let us know if you have any questions.
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Thanks csonnek, try this page:
https://classical-pianists.net/generation-iv-1800-1825/franz-liszt/
The Verse issue is with both the block near the top of the page as well as the one furthest down at the bottom (while some in between work fine), and the misaligned dots can be found near the bottom of the page as well.
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Thank you for the examples. We’ll need one more example from you, and then I’ve got two questions to see if we can understand this a bit better.
We’re still not able to see what you’re describing. Could you pass us a screenshot that shows what you see? Feel free to take the screenshot and add it to your site’s media library; we can see it there.
1. Did you write the text onto the page from scratch or did you copy them from an outside source and paste them into the page?
2. Can you tell us which computer you are using and the web browser? For example, are you on a PC using Windows with Edge web browser?
Thank you!
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Sure, a screenshot has now been added to the media library.
1. I’ve done both. After some testing earlier today it turned out it doesn’t matter if you copy/paste or type, the Verse block problem appears when the text happens to be of a length so that one of the lines hit the maximum character length of that line. If you on that line insert an extra character and update the page, the last word will be moved to the line below and the scroll-bar disappears (unless it makes another line further down hit that same critical character number).
2. I’m on a Windows 10 PC using Chrome (Version 92.0.4515.131 (Official Build) (64-bit)), but both issues appear on my Android phone as well – again using Chrome.
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Hm, ok, I do see what you’re describing.
The Verse block is primarily designed for poetry, so it’s made with a series of short lines in mind.
Since these are actually quotes, have you considered the Quote block instead? https://wordpress.com/support/wordpress-editor/blocks/quote-block/
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Indeed, I wanted to emphasize a few of the quotes and used the Verse block to get that framing.
Well I’d appreciate if you could forward the issues to the programmers since it shouldn’t be like this – especially the dots in the Separator block there, that looks broken.
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Thanks we’ll look into improving that!
For now though, I do recommend the Quote block for this.
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