Bug: Nested ternary operator indentation issue

[harshith1118]

🔎 Search Terms

ternary indentation, nested ternary, formatter, typescript indentation

🕗 Version & Regression Information

This changed in PR #62537 (#62537)
Unsure if this is a regression or longstanding bug.

⏯ Playground Link

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💻 Code

const result = condition1 ? (condition2 ? value1 : value2) : value3;

Expected formatter to indent nested ternary consistently.

🙁 Actual behavior

Formatter does not indent nested ternary operators correctly, causing confusion in complex expressions.

🙂 Expected behavior

Nested ternary operators should be indented to clearly reflect their structure, improving code readability.

Additional information about the issue

Related PR: #62537

[jcalz]

What, specifically, is “incorrect” about the current way TS formats conditional expressions? The description above just says it’s not right, but it doesn’t show an example of what’s not right, what would be right, and an explanation for why.

[RyanCavanaugh]

Yeah, please re-open with concrete examples in all fields.