Spoilers should allow advanced formatting

Question

With standard quotes, you can use advanced formatting, such as paragraphs.

> Sentence 1.
>
> Sentence 2.

Sentence 1.

Sentence 2.

However, this is impossible with spoiler blockquotes.

>! Sentence 1.
>!
>! Sentence 2.

Sentence 1. Sentence 2.

I think the spoilers should behave the save way as standard block quotes. Sometimes, it's nice to put a big explanation of the code in a spoiler, and currently I'm forced to use ugly <br>.

The issue is most likely caused by that spoiler block quotes are a hack, involving checking if the block quote begins with ! after rendering Markdown. This should be a part of Stack Exchange Markdown implementation in my opinion, not something implemented over actual Markdown.

• caird coinheringaahing: @AdamLear Any update on the corresponding MSE feature request?
• Adam Lear: @cairdcoinheringaahing Nothing new. I added a link to it to our internal tracker for this issue, though.

Answer 1

Yep, definitely a bug, but for now instead of <br> you could end each line with two spaces.

Foo

Bar

• TheDoctor: Isn't... that what you do with normal markdown?
• Doorknob: @TheDoctor With "normal" markdown, two newlines is a paragraph break. Adding two spaces after every line is a workaround for this.

Answer 2

It would be worth posting a bug report at meta.stackexchange if it hasn't already been done.

In the meantime:

>! <p>You can still use HTML markup to format spoiler text.</p>
>! <ul>
>! <li>`Like this,`</li>
>! <li>for example</li>
>! </ul>
>! <h2>Or this, even.</h2>

You can still use HTML markup to format spoiler text.

• Like this,
• for example

Or this, even.

• null: It could be moved if neccessary. I'm just not sure how relevant this is to the entire network - I doubt that other sites need spoilers with paragraphs.
• r3mainer: @xfix There was another bug with spoiler formatting that was recently fixed after a bug report was posted at meta SE. (It took a while for the admins to get round to it, mind you.) I think all the beta sites use identical themes, so the bug is almost certainly replicated in other places besides codegolf.
• Doorknob: Please no. HTML is so annoying to edit and view. -_-