Title: Multi-line shortcode
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Multi-line shortcode

 *  Anonymous User 7536166
 * (@anonymized-7536166)
 * [14 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multi-line-shortcode/)
 * Hi,
 * Using the codex example
    `[gallery id="123" size="medium"]`
 * I can’t get the following to work…
 *     ```
       [gallery
           id="123"
           size="medium"
       ]
       ```
   
 * If I have everything on one line my code works great, split it up for easy reading,
   and it stops working.
    Is there any way of fixing this, or is it a ‘bug’?
 * Thanks

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 *  [datdesignguy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/datdesignguy/)
 * (@datdesignguy)
 * [14 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multi-line-shortcode/#post-2265564)
 * I believe what’s happening is a post filter is interpreting what you’ve written
   as regular text and is applying the filter that converts line breaks to `<br/
   >` tags… I’m afraid I don’t know the solution, but maybe that will point you 
   in the right direction?
 *  Thread Starter Anonymous User 7536166
 * (@anonymized-7536166)
 * [14 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multi-line-shortcode/#post-2265628)
 * Thanks datdesignguy.
    Doing some more testing, it looks like something is also
   stripping the `/>` part off the `<br />`. It is rather annoying.
 *  [datdesignguy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/datdesignguy/)
 * (@datdesignguy)
 * [14 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multi-line-shortcode/#post-2265737)
 * hmmm… have you tried examining what filters are being applied to see if there
   is anything out of the ordinary going on? I am trying to figure out what function
   it is that allows you to inspect action hooks to display the filters currently
   being applied. It might be possible that another plugin is incorrectly interfering
   with your shortcodes… IDK.
 *  [datdesignguy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/datdesignguy/)
 * (@datdesignguy)
 * [14 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multi-line-shortcode/#post-2265738)
 * I believe if you do a print_r($wp_filters[‘the_content’]) it’ll show you what
   filters are being applied and their priorities, you can look up those filters
   in the codex to see if any of them could be causing the stripping problem you
   mentioned.
 *  [digibucc](https://wordpress.org/support/users/digibucc/)
 * (@digibucc)
 * [14 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multi-line-shortcode/#post-2265739)
 * well it’s shortcode, not code. the difference being it’s not designed for formatting.
   it’s designed to be in a short block.
 * not saying you can’t change that, just saying it’s not a bug, it’s supposed to
   be that way. (i believe)
 * changing the filters should do it.
 *  Thread Starter Anonymous User 7536166
 * (@anonymized-7536166)
 * [14 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multi-line-shortcode/#post-2265740)
 * I added print_r($wp_filters[‘the_content’]) to the top of the shortcode function,
   but nothing is being shown. I even added `echo "---";` before and after the line,
   and they show up fine.
 * I did have my section of code working fine when I was using `$content = preg_replace_callback("/(
   <$allblocks(.*?)>)?\[shortcode:([^]]+)](<\/$allblocks>)?/i", "shortcode_func",
   $content);` but then I found that using `add_shortcode` is a much better way.
 *  Thread Starter Anonymous User 7536166
 * (@anonymized-7536166)
 * [14 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multi-line-shortcode/#post-2265741)
 * OK, got some output…
 * This was from `print_r($atts);`, so basically everything I am passing to the 
   shortcode…
 *     ```
       [shortcode
           title="default"
           desc="true"
           aps="false"
           images="North America/Seattle/Duck Tour/IMG_1_0141.jpg,
               North America/Coeur D'Alene/IMG_1_0275.jpg,
               "
       ]
       ```
   
 * …
 *     ```
       Array
       (
           [0] =>
        />
           [2] => title="default"
        />
           [4] => desc="true"
        />
           [6] => aps="false"
        />
           [8] => images="North
           [9] => America/Seattle/Duck
           [10] => Tour/IMG_1_0141.jpg,
        />
           [12] => North
           [13] => America/Coeur
           [14] => D'Alene/IMG_1_0275.jpg,
        />
           [16] => "
        />
       )
       ```
   
 *  Thread Starter Anonymous User 7536166
 * (@anonymized-7536166)
 * [14 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multi-line-shortcode/#post-2265755)
 * Ok, I have hacked some code together that fudges the array. It’s currently working
   for me…
 * Add this at the top of the shortcode function, before `extract(shortcode_atts(
   array(...`.
 *     ```
       $atts = array_reduce($atts,"join_array");            // Join array into one string
       $atts = trim(str_replace('<br />', ' ', $atts));     // Replace '<br />' with ' ' (space)
       $atts = explode('" ', $atts);                        // Split into array
   
       $_atts = array('0'=>'0');                            // Create empty array
       foreach ($atts as $keyvaluepair)
       {
           $tmp1 = explode('=', $keyvaluepair);
           $tmp2 = array(trim($tmp1[0]) => trim(str_replace('"', '', $tmp1[1])));
           $_atts = array_merge($_atts, $_tmp2);
       }
       ```
   
 * As I said, it’s a fudge, but it works.

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