Listing random quirks of the sheet system, especially those related to coding, editing & updating character sheets.

See BCS/Updates for previously fixed bugs.

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

Bugs

General

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
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
translation special character bug discussion^(Forum) May 2021
- avoid placing symbols & special characters in translations
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)
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)

Bugs in how sheetworkers function.

setAttrs only updating the last value in a list in routine called with setWithWorkers() - thread^(Forum) Reported Oct. 2021
"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
Sheet workers are now both case sensitive, and case-insensitive. (probably a bug)^(Forum) Andreas J. (talk) 15:34, 25 July 2021 (UTC)
any regular attributes with "_repeating" in the attribute name do not trigger API events. ie "delete_repeating_rows" will fail. observation by Vince^(Forum) Aug 2021

Roll template styling sometimes completely disappears and doesn't work when trying to convert from LCS to CSE. Andreas J. (talk) 12:57, 21 April 2021 (UTC)
- thread discussiong issues.^(Forum)

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 /*######*/
detail & summary element styling is inconsistent between browsers/versions details^(Forum)

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))