Change Details

Currently, `mediawiki.jqueryMsg` doesn't support single HTML tags (tags like `<meta>` which don't have a closing part). Use of `<br>` in frontend messages would be handy. Looking at [[https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki/blob/d45cab7c464ef09e83f9148b543bc9dfe3b8f491/resources/src/mediawiki.jqueryMsg/mediawiki.jqueryMsg.js#L797-L801|the code]], it doesn't seem super hard to fix, we'd just have to check against the single-tag list when a closing tag is not found.

Currently, `mediawiki.jqueryMsg` doesn't support single HTML tags (tags like `<meta>` which don't have a closing part): ```lang=javascript mw.messages.set( 'test', 'a<br>b' ); mw.message( 'test' ).parse(); // 'a&lt;br&gt;b' ``` Use of `<br>` in frontend messages would be handy. Looking at [[https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki/blob/d45cab7c464ef09e83f9148b543bc9dfe3b8f491/resources/src/mediawiki.jqueryMsg/mediawiki.jqueryMsg.js#L797-L801|the code]], it doesn't seem super hard to fix, we'd just have to check against the single-tag list when a closing tag is not found.

Currently, `mediawiki.jqueryMsg` doesn't support single HTML tags (tags like `<meta>` which don't have a closing part).: ```lang=javascript mw.messages.set( 'test', 'a<br>b' ); mw.message( 'test' ).parse(); // 'a&lt;br&gt;b' ``` Use of `<br>` in frontend messages would be handy. Looking at [[https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki/blob/d45cab7c464ef09e83f9148b543bc9dfe3b8f491/resources/src/mediawiki.jqueryMsg/mediawiki.jqueryMsg.js#L797-L801|the code]], it doesn't seem super hard to fix, we'd just have to check against the single-tag list when a closing tag is not found.