Gutenberg: Unable to nest lists in a blockquote

[caraya]

Issue Overview

Nested HTML does not work inside blockquotes

Steps to Reproduce (for bugs)

1. Create a quote block and switch to 'Quote Style 2' in the toolbar
2. Paste text containing a nested ul element
3. Switch to the code editor and fix the code so that it is well-formatted HTML
4. Switch back to the visual editor

I'm using Chrome 64 with a clean build of Gutenberg from today.

Expected Behavior

I would expect the block to display the nested list

Current Behavior

When I try to switch back to visual editing the block I'm presented with a dialogue that indicates the block was changed externally. If I choose to overwrite, then the bulleted list disappears and the rest of the content displays normally.

I can edit it as a classic block or HTML but that's not the behavior I want.

Possible Solution

Allow for nested content or provide an error message rather than allow partial content to be displayed visually

Screenshots / Video

Related Issues and/or PRs

Todos

• [ ] Tests
• [ ] Documentation

[mtias]

The Quote block doesn't allow content that is not paragraphs at the moment. The plan is to add a nested group inside the quote to support additional blocks.

[caraya]

@mtias Is there a timeline for adding the nested group to quotes

[bph]

@mtias I posted on the slack channel with a request for ideas to approach a content conversion problem as well. Mine actually could be solved if I could move a group of blocks into a column of a nested block. :-)

[rfischmann]

Almost a year and a half and Gutenberg still doesn't support this. 😔

[chriscoyier]

I'll toss my hand up here and say this would be very useful. I'm trying to quote a list from another blog post right now and it seems like it's just not happening and I'll have to fake the list markup with text.

[mbert]

OK, so I understand this correctly:

After a sometimes rather painful learning process of learning how to use this rather controversial new editor and - in my case just about 30 wasted minutes for trying to solve it myself and then searching for solutions - it turns out that a feature that is supported by pretty much every other CMS (and, by the way, also by the old WP editor) - and that has lots of use cases, e.g. when citing complex pieces of text from third-party sources, is simply not supported?

And this has been known for years? And never fixed?

I am a bit surprised, to say the least.

(in my case it's worse, as a WP.com user I am not even given the choice anymore to keep on using the old editor)

[caraya]

@mbert I suggest you contact support and see if they can help. you regarding the old editor.