Jira yaml code snippet display issue

[Ning Wang]

Hi all,

I am creating Jira tickets through an API. Descriptions of these tickets contain yaml code snippets and they are not being displayed properly.

I screen recorded my interaction:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1B97yS8WH70PkM2gu7z5BmaA-Vk5u3qva/view?usp=sharing

You can see that at first we see the ticket displays the four line code snippets as 2 lines.

I then switched to the text-only mode, displaying the underlying formatting: it should be 4 lines. I then just made a tiny change, this time adding a space, to the text, and switched back to visual mode, then the snippet is displaying correctly.

I think that this is a Jira issue, since I removed that space again and then the visual display remains correct. 

This formatting issue does not appear for all my code snippets. Maybe has something to be with text padding?

Is this a known issue? Any idea how to resolve this?

[Ning Wang · Accepted solution]

Contacted the support team and they are aware of this issue: https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRASERVER-43015

The current workaround is to use {noformat}snippet{noformat} instead of 

{code:yaml}snippet{code}