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Markdown isn't rendering the <sup> tag correctly
Recently I made an edit to this question in Literature SE. The added part is a link inside a tag:
<sup>
The mot was made by mathematician Poincaré in his essay [The future of mathematics](https:...
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HTML comments break formatting from that point
I was writing up a signpost support question on our site meta. That post included a link which would need to be updated to another such question once asked. I therefore wanted to include an HTML ...
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Line after blockquote in spoiler not a spoiler?
When putting a blockquote in a spoiler, the line(s) after the blockquote are not hidden; this does not seem to be the behaviour I would expect? Hovering over the spoiler reveals the hidden text as ...
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Fenced code markdowns in posts before 2019 doesn't render correctly
This answer on Ask Ubuntu was posted in October 2016. The last revision was made then only and there answerer used fenced code markdown (```) which at that moment wasn't introduced on Stack Exchange. ...
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Why does the following Markdown (blockquote, code block, #) render the way it does?
Why does the following Markdown:
> ```
# test
render as it does?
<h1>test</h1>
Yes, you see that right: the # is converted even though it's inside a code block. Furthermore, it's ...
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Markdown in chat fails sometimes for single line messages too
I found many questions similar to chat formatting issues but unfortunately none of them addresses my issue related to chat formatting and I am making it clear that I am not talking about multiline ...
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Unable to rollback to previous revision
I edited my answer because the information was no longer accurate.
However, after editing I found that the formatting was broken, so I rolled it back to the previous version.
Unfortunately after the ...
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Bug with rendering <code>`TEST`</code>?
There seems to be a bug with rendering the following snippet.
<code>`TEST`</code>
It is shown as TEST and should be visible with quotes.
Suprisingly the following works fine
<code>...
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Community Promotion Ads - 2018 example markdown is wrong?
Looking at Community Promotion Ads - 2018 it states:
[![Tagline to show on mouseover][1]][2]
[1]: http://image-url
[2]: http://clickthrough-url
This is actually incorrect. The format should be:
[
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4 or more spaces always creates a horizontal text box without wrapping
If I type a paragraph into the editor and use four or more spaces to start it (a styling many people use in normal writing - i.e. indenting the first line of a paragraph), then the entire paragraph is ...
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URL containing opening without closing bracket doesn't work inline
If an URL contains only an opening bracket ((), but no closed bracket ()) and you try to link to it inline ([like this](http://www.example.org/opening_bracket:_()), the markdown doesn't work. The ...
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Why doesn't Markdown render links with [foo](bar) syntax if bar doesn't start with a protocol (http, https, etc.)?
On EL&U Meta, I wrote a comment:
You could ask on Writers, but I don't think you necessarily need to ask on StackExchange at all. This is covered by the general references on rhetorical devices. ...
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Plain URL stops hyperlinking at marking characters
When posting an answer, I wrote the following text
Remove that lowercase "m" in https://i.sstatic.net/XXXXX*m*.png
^ ^
And it ended up as
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Tag and link syntax doesn't seem to like each other, they want to be more separated! [duplicate]
This produce a tag, some text and a link:
sometag [some link]1
[tag:sometag] [some link][1]
Adding an space produce a tag and a link
sometag some link
[tag:sometag] [some link][1]
There's one ...
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Possible Markdown escaping error on iOS
Glancing at an old answer of mine, I noticed that in one of the two code blocks, \\ is converted to \ and the following line break is ignored. In the other, the \\ is not immediately followed by a ...
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