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Comments on Border-bottom of inline code is (sometimes) not displayed when it's in the last line of a paragraph

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Border-bottom of inline code is (sometimes) not displayed when it's in the last line of a paragraph

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After I wrote this answer, I could notice that, when there's inline code in the last line of a paragraph, sometimes the border-bottom of the inline code text is not displayed.

One case is when the paragraph is followed by either a horizontal line or a code block:

inline code with border-bottom missing

Note that the border-bottom is missing for all the inline code text, when it's in the last line of a paragraph and immediately followed by a horizontal line or a code block (in this case, it's a, b c-d e/f, IFS and read).

Also note from the screenshot above that between 2 paragraphs, this problem didn't happen, and the border-bottom is displayed correctly (in the image, that's b c and d e).

But in this question, this situation also happened as well (the problem occurred between 2 paragraphs):

problem happens between 2 paragraphs

And, to make things more confusing, in another part of the linked answer, it happened the opposite (between 2 paragraphs, not OK, but before code block, OK):

OMG_WTF

But at least it's OK when the inline code text is not in the paragraph's last line.

Last but not least, the problem doesn't happen in the preview, when I'm editing the post.


This problem doesn't occur in all browsers/SO's. Please find below the tests I've made:

Windows 10 Home 64 bits

Browser Behaviour
Chrome 88.0.4324.190 Not OK
Firefox 85.0.2 OK
Edge 89.0.774.45 Not OK

Iphone 8 / iOS 14.4

Browser Behaviour
Chrome 87.0.4280.77 Not OK
Safari Not OK

PS: if I rotate the phone to landscape orientation, the borders are displayed correctly.

MacOS Catalina 10.15.7

Browser Behaviour
Chrome 88.0.4324.150 OK
Safari 14.0.2 OK
Firefox 86.0.1 OK
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Moshi‭ wrote about 3 years ago

Increasing the height of the enclosing p element by setting padding: 1px fixes the issue, though I'm still not sure of the cause. Therefore, it seems that for whatever reason, the borders are getting clipped by the element below them.

Monica Cellio‭ wrote about 3 years ago

Interesting; I'm on a Mac with Chrome, which is ok for you, but I'm seeing the truncation.

hkotsubo‭ wrote about 3 years ago

@MonicaCellio I noticed that it also happens in other sites (example: https://meta.codidact.com/posts/281048) - Would it be worth posting this problem in Codidact Meta? Or having it just here is enough?

Monica Cellio‭ wrote about 3 years ago

Posting here is enough to get it into our bug list to look at. If you think a broader audience could help (investigation or workarounds), feel free to post there.