eBibleicious not reference “1 John 3:2” correctly

This intrigued me, so I did a little debugging.

Looking at the source code (right-click, view source) for the page you mentioned, you will see that the 1 in 1 John 3:2 is wrapped in its own font and span tags. This put it into its own “node” from a JavaScript DOM standpoint. The eBible script looks at each node separately, so it doesn’t see the 1 together with the rest of the reference.

What can you do about this? My guess is that you’re copying and pasting from a word processor, such as MS Word, into WordPress. MS Word does not produce very “clean” html. You might consider typing directly in WordPress. Otherwise, if you’re feeling brave, edit the html for your post in WordPress and move the 1 out of its own tags and into the tags that are around the rest of the reference.

May I suggest to eBible that they strip out font, and possibly, span tags before they walk the DOM. That should eliminate what some may see as a bug.