JSDoc Intellisense continues to completely remove HTML tag contents

[thw0rted]

Issue Type: Bug

The issue I reported a year and a half ago has not been resolved as of the current Insider build of VSCode. The contents of HTML tags in JSDoc comments are still completely removed.

Notice the <p> tags containing a large amount of information about this class:

That information is not shown in the tooltip and there is no indication that anything has been removed:

Related issues:
#31161
#40607 (marked as resolved via #132182)
#113959
microsoft/language-server-protocol#1344 (LSP says it's not their fault)

cc @mjbvz , who worked the linked PR

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VS Code version: Code - Insiders 1.67.0-insider (8b7086a, 2022-04-01T05:16:02.350Z)
OS version: Windows_NT x64 10.0.19044
Restricted Mode: No

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Process Argv
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A/B Experiments

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[thw0rted]

Just as an aside, maybe y'all could make the auto-lock-bot a little less aggressive, so that when you make a change that's supposed to resolve an issue, the issue doesn't get locked before the change makes its way into a production release where the reporter can actually confirm that the fix worked.

[mjbvz]

Yes that PR only enables the ability for an extension to turn on html rendering. We didn't actually enable it for JS/TS

Marking as a feature request to gauge interest

[thw0rted]

As I said in my previous issue, I am not making a feature request. I don't need the tag to render as HTML, I need the bare text content to render at all and not be completely discarded. Not showing 80% of the docs for this class is a bug, period. It's frustrating that for years I have had to go look up docs in a browser because my IDE cannot render them without losing random snippets of text.

[mjbvz]

The current behavior is by-design. Changing the design is a feature request

[thw0rted]

@mjbvz I think my previous comment came off as rude, but I just want to confirm that the official position of the VSCode team is that the following behavior is "by design":

Maybe I could re-file this as a security issue? "Attacker can craft documentation with different meanings in different IDEs"? Somebody a little more clever than I could probably come up with something akin to a homograph attack.

[mjbvz]

Yes it's by design and it's also not a security issues IMO since this is non-executing code. This is been how VS Code has rendered JSDoc for 5+ years so let's wait for more feedback on the request

[vscodenpa]

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Happy Coding!

[vscodenpa]

🙁 In the last 60 days, this feature request has received less than 20 community upvotes and we closed it. Still a big Thank You to you for taking the time to create this issue! To learn more about how we handle feature requests, please see our documentation.

Happy Coding!