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This page lists observed Bugs and odd quirks of the Character Sheet-system, especially those related to coding, editing & updating character sheets.

Character Sheet Development
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See Building Character Sheets#Restrictions for quirks that aren't explicit bugs.
See BCS/Updates for previously fixed bugs

Note: The "Month Year" mention at end is a guaranteed last observation of the bug.

Bugs

Sheet code/editing bugs that doesn't fit other categories.

Using the word eval anywhere in the sheet code will stop everything from working. Roll20 have put is as a security measure to prevent eval to be used even in a roundabout way. You cant have attribute or class names that includes it.
- this also prevent you from import google fonts that happen to have "eval" as part of the name
- Known list of forbidden words: data:, eval, cookie, window, parent, this, behaviour, behavior, expression, moz-binding
using optgroup in <select> doesn't work on custom sheets, even though it works on existing sheets like Free Spacer
- discussion^(Forum) May 2021
- workaround: CSS_Wizardry#Optgroup
"Newly-dropped characters now must fully resolve before closing the window"
- rapport^(Forum) by Keith May 2021
- possibly fixed
changing default value of attributes will change untouched values of existing sheet. May 2021
- Ex. <input value="a"> to <input value="b">
- example of instance of this bug being reverted
Unicode character in CSS "content" breaks roll templates^(Forum) Andreas J. (talk) 14:49, 12 August 2021 (UTC)
certain emojis & unicode characters are removed from character sheets, so can't be reliably used. Use images instead. Dec 2021
translation
- translation special character bug discussion^(Forum) May 2021
  - avoid placing symbols & special characters in translations
- language-dependent sheet changes doesn't seem to work. See #9053 for details. Summer 2021

position dissociating for action buttons in rep sections bug discussion^(Forum) Feb 2022
Button name's containing an underscore e.g "attack_roll" inside a repeating section, ARE NOT DETECTED by the on("clicked:- listener. Vince -details^(Forum)
"Ghost Rows" in repeating sections when a dash '-' is used in the section name full description & reporduction steps^(Forum) - found by Peter B. Jan 2021
any regular attributes with _repeating in the attribute-name do not trigger API events. i.e. delete_repeating_rows will fail. observation by Vince^(Forum) Aug 2021
Using <table> inside Repeating Sections might interfere with sheetworkers. Details: Button/Sheetworker not working^(Forum) (Jan 2022)

Bugs in how sheetworkers function.

odd behavior with default values December 2021
setAttrs only updating the last value in a list in routine called with setWithWorkers() - thread^(Forum) Reported Oct. 2021
Sheet workers are now both case sensitive, and case-insensitive. (probably a bug)^(Forum) Andreas J. (talk) 15:34, 25 July 2021 (UTC)

HTML replacement characters have been observed to sometimes be converted prematurely after the CSE update was made which can cause sheet roll macros to break.
- Only appears to happen in CSE-mode. reported by Ayethin & Vince
- Workaround: since nested quotes and/or queries that include special characters may break in CSE-mode, try substituting the ampersand character as well. ie " should be changed to &quot;.
- Roll20 have under testing^(Forum) improvements to make html characters redundant

in some cases, .charsheet needs to be added to the CSS classes, which previously worked fine with Legacy Sheet
- ex. .charsheet span{ width: 150px;}, instead of span{ width: 150px;}
Asterisks disappearing from CSS comments. examples & discussion^(Forum)
- Chris D. may have uncovered strange behavior with CSS comments using multiple asterisk characters. eg /******/
- Scott C. notes that this may be an older bug^[1] and suggests to use # instead. eg /*######*/
details & summary-element styling is inconsistent between browsers/versions details^(Forum) April 2021

In legacy mode, the number comparison functions stop working if the number you are comparing is below zero. mention June 2021^(Forum)

Bug affecting how sheets uploaded to the sheet repo work or function.

replacing sheet images on github doesn't always update on sheet to make sure images change on sheet when updating/replacing them, change their name/reference in the code, eg. logo.jpg to logo2.jpg.
- discussion on the bug
- This minor bug have been observed occasionally since 2019(?) (Andreas J. (talk) 15:39, 5 May 2021 (UTC))

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 * '''Using the word <code>eval</code> anywhere in the sheet code will stop everything from working.''' Roll20 have put is as a security measure to prevent eval to be used even in a roundabout way. You cant have attribute or class names that includes it.
 ** this also prevent you from import google fonts that happen to have "eval" as part of the name
+** Known list of forbidden words: {{code|data:}}, {{code|eval}}, {{code|cookie}}, {{code|window}}, {{code|parent}}, {{code|this}}, {{code|behaviour}}, {{code|behavior}}, {{code|expression}}, {{code|moz-binding}}
 * '''using [[BCS#Dropdown_menu|optgroup]] in <code><nowiki><select></nowiki></code> doesn't work on custom sheets''', even though it works on existing sheets like [[Free Spacer]]
 ** {{fpl|10017485/ discussion}} May 2021