Mobiledoc issue for blockquote html conversion

Developer help
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Hi All

I’m having trouble with html to mobiledoc conversions. If I use the API or upload via Labs, I get the same result.

I’m posting a lot of quotes as follows:

<blockquote>There are no traffic jams along the 'extra mile.'<br><cite>Roger Staubach</cite></blockquote>

The converted mobiledoc looks like this:
{“version”:“0.3.1”,“atoms”:[[“soft-return”,“”,{}]],“cards”:,“markups”:,“sections”:[[1,“blockquote”,[[0,,0,“There are no traffic jams along the ‘extra mile.’”],[1,,0,0],[0,,0,“Roger Staubach”]]]]

What I end up with on the post is this:
Roger%20Staubach%20Quote%20(1)

Through the conversion, I’m losing the cite tag?

When I inspect on the frontend it looks like this:

<blockquote>"There are no traffic jams along the 'extra mile.'"
<br>
"Roger Staubach"
</blockquote>

When I change the quote in the post admin, then it returns the desired result, ie the first html example I shared above.

What am I doing wrong here?

Thank you in advance.

Matt

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@Mattches <cite> is not supported in the rich-text editor which is why it’s being pulled into a separate section. A workarond could be putting the content into an HTML card instead…

<p>some content</p>
<!--kg-card-start: html-->
<blockquote>There are no traffic jams along the 'extra mile.'<br><cite>Roger Staubach</cite></blockquote>
<!--kg-card-end: html-->
<p>some more content</p>
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Hey @Kevin

Thanks for the prompt reply.

If I was putting this through a Zap would I just include those card tags before and after the html? That didn’t seem to do the trick.

Matt

4

Yes, that should be enough. Which version of Ghost are you running?

5

I’m running 2.30.2

6

Ohh, this is my bad, sorry, I messed up the comment naming. It should be:

<!--kg-card-begin: html-->
...your html...
<!--kg-card-end: html-->

I wrote start rather than begin in my previous message.

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Perfect @Kevin! That worked. Thanks mate.