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Firstly, I've seen a few people using <kbd> tags to emphasise JSFiddle demo links, which goes against the W3C specification:

The kbd element represents user input (typically keyboard input, although it may also be used to represent other input, such as voice commands).

There are situations where <kbd> elements could have valid links, so there's no need to strip them out completely, but I can't ever see a need for a JSFiddle link within them.

Look at my demo!

Should JSFiddle links be blocked from <kbd> tags?

The other thing is that there are currently no restrictions (or so it seems).
You can have an entire block of text within the <kbd> tags if you so desired. which is silly.

You can also put images inside them, which seems a little unnecessary:

Woo hoo!

Does there need to be stricter formatting rules for the <kbd> tag to limit anything which shouldn't normally appear within them?

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    What is your feature request exactly? There's nothing in particular that you're suggesting... it's just a random "rant" about kbd.
    – ben is uǝq backwards
    Commented Apr 15, 2013 at 14:54
  • I'm asking for stricter formatting rules for the <kbd> tag. I figured that would be obvious, but let me edit it into my question.
    – James Donnelly
    Commented Apr 15, 2013 at 14:54
  • Can you provide some examples where these problems appear in the wild?
    – Emil Vikström
    Commented Apr 15, 2013 at 14:55
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    What if I have a potato-button on my keyboard?
    – Time Traveling Bobby
    Commented Apr 15, 2013 at 14:57
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    @EmilVikström Well here's a question I just edited on SO which placed JSFiddle link within the <kbd> tags, which sparked this post: stackoverflow.com/revisions/15882334/1. The rest is just a result of toying with the <kbd> tag to see if SO imposed any restrictions.
    – James Donnelly
    Commented Apr 15, 2013 at 14:58
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    Your examples are abuse of the formatting, just like unnecessary code tags, or everything in bold...and so on. Just edit it out.
    – Time Traveling Bobby
    Commented Apr 15, 2013 at 14:58
  • Sulfurized Demonbobby, I have two upvote-buttons on my keyboard!
    – Emil Vikström
    Commented Apr 15, 2013 at 14:59
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    You must be rich man. In Latvia we dream about keyboard potato.
    – Richard J. Ross III
    Commented Apr 15, 2013 at 15:01
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    @EmilVikström: Then you're one lucky bastard, I only have one button which casts downvotes with extreme prejudice. ;)
    – Time Traveling Bobby
    Commented Apr 15, 2013 at 15:01
  • @Balpha that has to be the fastest status-declined I've ever seen.
    – Richard J. Ross III
    Commented Apr 15, 2013 at 15:13
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    @RichardJ.RossIII 7:18, 6:14 :)
    – balpha StaffMod
    Commented Apr 15, 2013 at 15:34

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I dislike formatting abuse as much as the next guy, but this isn't something you should enforce technically. What if people want to legitimately link a <kbd> tag? For example I coult tell you to read all about Scroll Lock :)

Unless this really becomes a wide-spread problem – which I doubt –, editing them out and educating the posters to please not do that seems good enough.

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  • This is why I mentioned filtering just JSFiddle links. I can't imagine a situation where a <kbd> tag would be the only way of displaying a link to such an example. "Here's a demo (press <kbd>A+B+C</kbd>)" over "Here's a demo: <kbd>A+B+C</kbd>"
    – James Donnelly
    Commented Apr 15, 2013 at 15:13
  • @JamesDonnelly the thing about <kbd> is that it's not an obvious feature. It's not in the toolbar, and your n00b who is just joining the site simply won't know about it.
    – Richard J. Ross III
    Commented Apr 15, 2013 at 15:13

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