Help:Lint errors/pwrap-bug-workaround

This linter category has been added to assist editors in fixing wikitext and templates to ensure that their pages render correctly with a HTML5-based tool like RemexHTML (which is slated to replace Tidy) and Parsoid. Specifically, this has got to do with a paragraph-wrapping bug in the PHP parser. It affects span, sub, sup tags that occur on the same line as a (html4) block tag and also have a  CSS property.

For all scenarios that are identified by this linter category, we recommend adding a line break before the span/sub/sup tag to ensure that the page rendering is preserved when Tidy is replaced with RemexHTML.

Explanation
The following wikitext: generates the following HTML in (PHP-parser + RemexHTML) and Parsoid: but generates the following HTML in (PHP-parser + Tidy) Note how the p-tag wraps the span-tag with Tidy and how the span-tag wraps the p-tag with RemexHTML. Normally, this is not a problem (except for HTML5 output compliance which is a separate matter). However, when the span tag has the  CSS property, the span wrapper around the p-tag can change rendering in bad ways when the paragraph has a lot of content. It leads to a long horizontal line without wrapping. This seems to be the case with navboxes, for example.

Fixing the underlying bug (T134469) is non-trivial (and we are still going to consider this). However, there is a simple wikitext workaround for this bug which is to introduce a line break before the span tag so that it is on the same line as a block tag like the div.