Kirbytext image caption markdown issue

Kirby 3 Solved ✅
1

I’m upgrading a site in development form Kirby v2 to v3.

Something has broken that I cannot seem to fix.

In the panel I have a textarea field with the following content.

(image: img_6035.jpg caption: text with *italics*)

When published using <?= $page->text()->kirbytext(); ?> a figure tag appears for the image as I would expect. But the markdown does not work and the result is this:

<figure>
  <img src="http://localhost:8888/media/pages/support/840203468-1550791454/img_6035.jpg">
  <figcaption>text with *italics*</figcaption>
</figure>

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What I was expecting was this

<figure>
  <img src="http://localhost:8888/media/pages/support/840203468-1550791454/img_6035.jpg">
  <figcaption>text with <em>italics</em></figcaption>
</figure>

This did happen as above in v2 so I’m curious if this is a bug or a change in the core that I should try to work around.

Thank you!

2

Looks like a bug or at least a missing feature to me, Markdown/Kirbytext parsing is not used on the caption.

3

Wondering if you used a custom image tag in K2 because it seems that Markdown in a caption never worked by default?

4

I have this working as expected in an older site (Kirby v2.3.2) without plugins. Perhaps it was removed before v3?

5

That can’t possibly be (and definitely doesn’t work), this is the code in 2.3.2 (and later):

$figure->append('<figcaption>' . html($caption) . '</figcaption>');

No markdown parsing.

Sure you never modified the source code or added a custom image tag? After all these years…

6

Oh yes. It appears I modified that line, thanks for your patenice. I guess I’m surprised that this functionality wasn’t included all along!

My modified version, for the record:

$figure->append('<figcaption>' . kirbytext($caption) . '</figcaption>');

I looked into making a similar amendment in K3 but couldn’t seem to figure it out. I might go about making a new tag in K3.

Thanks for all your help : )

Dexter