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What's broken

Live on docs.redpanda.com right now: hover tombstone_retention_ms (referenced from topic-properties#delete-retention-ms) and the tooltip body shows only cloud_storage_enabled -- unrelated to tombstone retention. Same bug on kafka_max_message_size_upper_limit_bytes (referenced from topic-properties#max-message-bytes): the tooltip shows only a bare link reading "max.message.bytes".

Root cause

render-property-descriptions.js (docs-extensions-and-macros) emits a single-paragraph description as bare inline HTML with no <p> wrapper -- deliberately, per its own comment: "what a tooltip wants". Anything richer (multiple paragraphs, a list, an admonition) keeps real block markup.

truncateDescriptionHtml in 19-property-tooltips.js truncates whenever container.children.length > 1, on the assumption that multiple children means multiple paragraphs. But .children only counts elements, never text nodes. A single paragraph containing several inline elements (a <code> span, a link, another <code> span) has more than one "child" despite being one block of prose -- so it got truncated to blocks[0], silently dropping every text node around it.

  • tombstone_retention_ms's real description: The retention time for tombstone records... cannot be enabled at the same time as any of <code>cloud_storage_enabled</code>, <code>cloud_storage_enable_remote_read</code>, or <code>cloud_storage_enable_remote_write</code>... → truncated to just <code>cloud_storage_enabled</code>.
  • kafka_max_message_size_upper_limit_bytes's real description: The maximum value you can set for the <a>...<code>max.message.bytes</code></a> topic property... → truncated to just the link.

Fix

Only truncate when the top level actually contains real block structure (p, div, ul, ol, dl, table, blockquote, pre) to truncate. A flat run of inline elements is returned whole, matching the server's own intent.

Verification

  • Reproduced live on docs.redpanda.com (both examples above) before fixing.
  • New test (tests/property-tooltips/truncate-description-html.test.js) extracts the real shipped function and runs it in a real Puppeteer page (so document.createElement behaves exactly as it does on the live site) against the two real captured production description strings, plus a genuine multi-paragraph case and a list case to confirm truncation still applies where it's supposed to. Confirmed the test fails against the pre-fix source.
  • Wired tests/property-tooltips/*.test.js into npm run test:all via a new test:property-tooltips script (previously not run by any script).
  • gulp lint:js clean on the changed files (pre-existing max-len warnings elsewhere in the file are unrelated to this change).

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render-property-descriptions.js emits a single-paragraph property
description as bare inline HTML with no <p> wrapper -- deliberately,
"what a tooltip wants" -- and only wraps richer content (multiple
paragraphs, lists, admonitions) in real block markup.

truncateDescriptionHtml's "truncate if more than one child" check
only ever counts container.children, which is elements only, never
text nodes. A single paragraph containing several inline elements (a
<code> span, a link, another <code> span) has more than one "child"
despite being one block of prose, so it got truncated to blocks[0],
silently dropping every text node around it.

Confirmed live on docs.redpanda.com: tombstone_retention_ms's tooltip
showed only "cloud_storage_enabled" (the first of three <code> spans
in its one real paragraph), and
kafka_max_message_size_upper_limit_bytes's tooltip showed only a bare
link reading "max.message.bytes" (the first inline element in its
one real paragraph).

Now only truncate when the top level actually contains real block
structure (p, div, ul, ol, dl, table, blockquote, pre) to truncate.
Added a regression test that runs the real extracted function in a
real browser page against the two live descriptions above, plus a
genuine multi-paragraph case to confirm truncation still applies
where it's supposed to.
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truncateDescriptionHtml now preserves bare inline descriptions and single-block HTML. It truncates only content with multiple top-level block elements. New Puppeteer tests cover inline elements, links, paragraphs, lists, bypass behavior, and empty input. A new npm script runs the property-tooltip tests, and test:all now includes that script.

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The truncation fix can still drop inline content when a tooltip description combines one block element with additional text, leaving some users with incomplete tooltip details. This is a bounded correctness issue that is mergeable with explicit owner awareness or a follow-up fix.

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In `@src/js/19-property-tooltips.js`:
- Around line 359-367: Update the block-structure check in the surrounding
tooltip truncation logic to count recognized top-level block elements using
BLOCK_TAGS, rather than relying on total container.children length. Only perform
truncation when that block count exceeds one; preserve the existing return
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Comment on lines 359 to +367
var blocks = container.children
if (blocks.length <= 1) return html
var hasBlockStructure = false
for (var i = 0; i < blocks.length; i++) {
if (BLOCK_TAGS[blocks[i].tagName]) {
hasBlockStructure = true
break
}
}
if (!hasBlockStructure || blocks.length <= 1) return html

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Count top-level block elements before truncation.

A fragment such as <p>Summary.</p><code>suffix</code> has one block element. This condition sets hasBlockStructure and sees two element children, then drops the inline suffix. Count recognized block elements and truncate only when that count is greater than one.

Proposed fix
-    var hasBlockStructure = false
+    var firstBlock
+    var blockCount = 0
     for (var i = 0; i < blocks.length; i++) {
       if (BLOCK_TAGS[blocks[i].tagName]) {
-        hasBlockStructure = true
-        break
+        if (!firstBlock) firstBlock = blocks[i]
+        blockCount++
       }
     }
-    if (!hasBlockStructure || blocks.length <= 1) return html
-    return blocks[0].outerHTML + '<p>&`#8230`;</p>'
+    if (blockCount <= 1) return html
+    return firstBlock.outerHTML + '<p>&`#8230`;</p>'
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In `@src/js/19-property-tooltips.js` around lines 359 - 367, Update the
block-structure check in the surrounding tooltip truncation logic to count
recognized top-level block elements using BLOCK_TAGS, rather than relying on
total container.children length. Only perform truncation when that block count
exceeds one; preserve the existing return behavior for fragments with zero or
one recognized block element.

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