TOC has unexpected behavior when not top of note

[toddfoster]

Operating system

• macOS
• iOS

Application

• Desktop
• Mobile

When I leave a title for my note at the very top (which is conveniently copied into the empty title of a new note: thanks!), and throw in a [toc] on the next line, I end up with three tables of contents. If I remove that title so that the [toc] is at the very top of the note, then I get the expected behavior (only a single table of contents).

[CalebJohn]

If you leave a newline before the [toc] you also get the correct behaviour.
e.g.

Title

[toc]

Body...

This is probably a bug with the toc plugin that joplin uses.

[toddfoster]

That makes a certain kind of sense. I've experienced at least one markdown parsers than required newlines between different block elements. Joplin seems pleasantly tolerant (other than with toc!).

I made a quick test with the demo.html from markdown-it-toc-done-right without reproducing the issue, but that's a pretty different use case.

This may not be an issue worth pursuing: a note in a doc might be helpful, though. Or this (closed) bug report might be adequate.

[CalebJohn]

That's interesting, I notice that the demo uses slightly different version of markdown-it markdown-it-anchor and of course it uses the cutting edge version of the toc plugin. This could be fixed already in one of those libraries.

[CalebJohn]

After some quick testing it was clear that this was a bug that had been fixed in the newest version of the plugin, but since the plugin isn't very transparent about those things it was clear at first.