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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Rendering bug for MarkDown table [duplicate]
I found out that a table with a "title" that rendered correctly in MarkDown during editing in the preview doesn't render correctly during rendering once posted.
Title
This | is
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a |...
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Is there a full list of StackExchange sites shortcodes somewhere? [duplicate]
I know shortcodes exist to mention Stack Exchange sites, like [SO] for Stack Overflow, [SF] for Server Fault, or [SU] for Super User. I also know third-level Stack Exchange sites can be mentioned as [...
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Code block usability issues in Stacks Editor
Some issues with the new Stacks Editor's code block usage:
Had to make it a GIF to upload here but the video is supposed to stop when I press the discard button and click the off-screen confirm box.
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Unable to make syntax highlighting working [duplicate]
Disclaimer: I'm more a reader than a contributor on Stackoverflow, so I may have missed something obvious for you all.
I've posted this question (about some typescript issue), and added the Typescript ...
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Add Markdown (or HTML) Callouts/Alerts/Admonitions
It's hard to believe this hasn't been suggested before (I assume it must have been), but my search-fu yielded only one 10-year-old post with little traffic, no accepted answer, and some very nostalgic ...
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Should we fix the exploitable bugs in how Markdown is rendered in comments? [duplicate]
By using strategically placed Unicode characters, such as U+202E "Left-to-right override", the structure of comments can be distorted in every which way. For example, one can make themselves ...
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Multi-paragraph spoiler blocks (still) don’t work properly
Blockquotes and spoilers have almost the same syntax: a blockquote where every line starts with an exclamation mark is a spoiler.
In order to blockquote multiple paragraphs correctly, you simply add ...
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When user highlights more than 1 line of code and pressed 'code sample', make it a code block [duplicate]
When I enter multiple lines of code and then press 'code sample' or ctrl+k, the method of formatting is that it all automatically gets indented. However, I propose that any multi-line code should ...
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Indented Stack Snippets don’t render well
This Markdown:
- foo
if (Math.random() < 0.5) {
console.log("hello, world!");
} else {
console.log("goodbye, cruel world!");
}
Renders as:
foo
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> if (...
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Reconsider adding Markdown support for footnotes
A 2009 feature request to add support for Markdown footnotes was declined in 2014.
The reason(s) for declining appear to no longer be valid:
We want to avoid creating proprietary additions to ...
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How can I ensure line breaks inside block quotes are rendered as entered in the markup?
At least in the editor preview, this doesn't render linebreaks:
> foo
> bar
> baz
foo
bar
baz
Screenshot:
Is this a problem of my browser? Or something else? On StackEdit it works as ...
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Please, I want some more HTML
Stack Exchange supports a restricted subset of HTML. In some ways, this is good; but in others, it's a little too restrictive. It would be nice to have the following:
Elements
<details> / <...
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Workaround for bug causing \ before dollar signs to be rendered as \\\ on MathJax enabled sites?
As the title says, a single \ in a code block is being rendered as \\\ if preceding a $. This seems to be the same bug reported here, but since it hasn't been fixed, I am asking for a workaround. ...
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It should be more obvious how to add titles to images
There's a related feature request from 2010, but I'm not sure that feature request is necessarily asking for the right thing.
Image tags have two attributes - alt text and titles. The alt text is used ...
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Protocol-relative URLs to embedded images are incorrectly being blocked
It is possible to write links without specifying the protocol, in this manner:
[This is a reference-style link][some-link]
[This is an inline-style link](//stackexchange.com)
[some-link]: //...
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