{"action":"closed","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/Ranks/emojione/issues/99","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/Ranks/emojione/issues/99/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/Ranks/emojione/issues/99/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/Ranks/emojione/issues/99/events","html_url":"https://github.com/Ranks/emojione/issues/99","id":73572320,"number":99,"title":"Why is <span> in ignoredRegexp?","user":{"login":"Synchro","id":81561,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/81561?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/Synchro","html_url":"https://github.com/Synchro","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Synchro/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Synchro/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Synchro/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Synchro/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Synchro/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Synchro/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Synchro/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Synchro/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Synchro/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[],"state":"closed","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":2,"created_at":"2015-05-06T09:36:48Z","updated_at":"2015-05-06T19:52:40Z","closed_at":"2015-05-06T19:52:40Z","body":"The first thing I tried to do with Emojione (in PHP) was to convert this shortcode markup to unicode chars:\r\n\r\n    <span style=\"font-size:72px;\">:smile:</span>\r\n\r\nI was surprised to find it didn't work. I tracked it down to find that the `ignoredRegexp` property makes it not apply to `span`s and some other contexts. I can possibly understand it in object tags, but not spans. Why is that? There are no comments in the code to explain it!"}}