Main Page: Building Character Sheets

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

See BCS/Updates for previously fixed bugs.

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

Sheetworkers

Bugs in how sheetworkers function.

JavaScript Restrictions

• "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)

CSE

Bugs related to Character Sheet Enhancement(CSE).

• 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 ".
  • 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)

LCS

Bugs that only affect Legacy Character Sheets(LCS).

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

Github

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))

See Also

• Building_Character_Sheets#Restrictions - Documented restrictions on how code is to be written.
• Common_Mistakes - related to sheet coding