Inline code in comments disappear

[mueller-contria]

Describe the Bug

When adding a new or editing an existing comment on a page, I can press ctrl+8 to add text formatted as Inline Code.
After saving the comment, everything added as Code is gone. It is not, that the code-formatting would not work, but the text itself is gone.

Steps to Reproduce

1. Go to any page where you have permissions to add a comment
2. Add some normal text, Press ctrl+8, add some code, Press ctrl+8 again. -> the code is visible in the comment- editor, inside the tags <code><span class="editor-theme-code">
3. Click "Save comment"
4. The comment appears, but only the normal text before and after the code. The code itself is gone, source-code reveals neither <code>-tags nor the text.

Expected Behaviour

Code in Comment should be visible.
Ideally it would be inside <code>-Tags as it is with code in other parts of a page.

Screenshots or Additional Context

While ctrl+8 seems to work in the editor, but not while saving; most other shortcuts from the normal editor do not work at all and produce a javascript-error:
ctrl+[1-4]
ctrl+6 / ctrl+Q
ctrl+7 / ctrl+E
ctrl+9
all give the following error on the javascript-console:
wysiwyg.js?version=v25.12.2:13 TypeError: Cannot read properties of null (reading 'open')

As these are the shortcuts with no equivalent Icon in the Comment-Editor; and as the shortcuts for commends with an Icon (ctrl+b, ctrl+i, ctrl+o, ctrl+p, ctrl+shift+k) do work as expected, I guess this is not an unexpected behaviour.

But ctrl+8 seems to be a different case, as it seems to be working correctly while editing, but not on saving.

As source code in comments seems to have worked earlier, I guess this is a problem with the new WYSIWYG-Editor

Browser Details

Firefox 147.0.1 (64-Bit) on Windows 11

Exact BookStack Version

v25.12.2

[joachimtingvold]

Stumbled upon this issue when trying to figure out why comments added via the API didn't have code formatting. I'm using v25.12.3.

edit: Looking at it closer, the issue seems to be even "deeper" on the API-side. The API expects html-content via the html parameter, and even if you feed it content like the following;

This is a test with normal text followed by code-segment:

<pre><code class="text">
Some code
</code></pre>

or:

<pre><code class="text">
Just code, no normal text
</code></pre>

Both of these entries are "sucess"/OK (based on the API-response), but the content stored in the database is completely blank (i.e. not even the normal text of the first example is stored).