Questions tagged [markdown]
Markdown is a lightweight, plain-text, markup language. It is used across the entire Stack Exchange network for post formatting (Questions, answers, wikis, chat).
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How can I see what Markdown was used in a chat message?
If I see a message in chat for example this one:
How can I find the Markdown that was used to create it?
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Combining lists with quotes leads to the first list item not being recognized
When combining lists with quotes (or spoilers), something strange happens. The following Markdown:
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> This is the first quote.
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> This is the second quote.
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This is the first ...
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How to apply text attributes in code blocks? [duplicate]
In bio.SE, I use code blocks to type out genetic code and related things like sequence of numerical position of codons like in this answer.
So in this answer, I've added the following code block
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Something broke Markdown tables with column alignment in the Markdown preview shown below the editor
This is Ham Vocke's demo table with aligned columns:
| left | center | right |
|:---- |:------:| -----:|
| One | Two | Three |
This is it, rendered:
left
center
right
One
Two
Three
In the ...
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hr breaking formatting
I was just working on a question, when I was adding a note at the bottom:
For some reason, this made the formatting break. I only prefer using hr for lines, but I also tested it with ---, and it then ...
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Formatting in the middle of a URL in chat displays formatting, then does not
I attempted to use formatting to highlight a possible spelling error to someone in chat. They'd mispelled stackexchange - so I'd tried to highlight just that word in the full URL as say unix....
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Chat: Incorrect formatting of cursive or bold text adjacent to brackets
All of these fail to be formatted correctly in Chat:
\[*test*\]
Expected: [test]
Actual: [*test*]
[[*test*]](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/test)
Expected: [test]
Actual: [[test]](en.wiktionary.org/...
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When < and > appear in MathJax, the context in between is not displayed
Occasionally, I have some glitches while using math equations. I am not sure if it's a bug, but I have encountered it on different systems. Whenever I try to write "i < j" in math mode, ...
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An apostrophe after a CommonMark hyperlink breaks the client-side preview renderer (but still renders correctly server-side)
An Example
At softwarerecs.stackexchange.com/posts/93650/edit/0ca6aecd-c013-42bb-b9f3-b41c3c60ae33 (note that the appended hash is removable), [`meta.stackexchange.com/q/412232`][2]'s breaks the ...
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Code samples in spoilers still have issues
Suppose I have a section of text in the middle of a spoiler and I want to put some in a code block such that it is surrounded by the spoiler text on both sides:
If I try
>! something
>! <pre&...
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The markdown renderer should make the priority of code or math quotation to be greater than the table separator
Steps to reproduce:
Insert the following text
| `\bigg|_1^2` | $\bigg|_1^2$ |
| ------ | ----- |
| | |
Expected behavior:
A rendered table with fields \bigg|_1^2 and $\bigg|_1^2$
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Four things having two meanings, can we have different numbering formats? [duplicate]
In this question I asked this morning, I have the following reasoning: "The following four things have the following two meanings.", and later on I'd like to refer to those meanings.
For ...
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Markdown parsing does not occur in the snippet of a chat message shown when replying
It seems that very recently (as in, within the last half-hour) chat replies now show a snippet of the message that you're replying to. However, this snippet does not have any of the normal chat-...
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How do I view the markdown of a self-deleted question?
I recently posted a question before realizing it needed some revision. I deleted the post intending to edit and undelete later before learning you cannot edit self-deleted questions.
Normally I would ...
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Post preview does not match final result when using certain special characters in bare URLs
https://politics.stackexchange.com/a/92848
The preview when editing looks like this:
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whig_government,_1830–1834
The final post looks like this:
• https://en....
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