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As per Jeff's suggestion in this comment:

You can use this question as a formatting sandbox. You can:

  • edit this question itself (Community Wiki questions such as this one require only 100 reputation to edit instead of 2,000)
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    alert("JavaScript code <b>goes</b> here.");
}
```

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  • %APPDATA%\subversion\auth\ . ...... auth - 2021-02-04 - working after re-auth ..... - looks like it works in comments as well.
    – Shadow Wizard
    Commented Feb 4, 2021 at 13:04
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[tag:feature-request]
Just a post to see of there is a bug here. Have seen some strangeness when posting another Meta thread and want to reproduce it if possible before reporinting it. 

The word wrap was broken all kinds of ways and the tag did not render at all. Maybe it has something to do with editing in both modes (a bit in one mode, then a bit in another). I think it has put this code into some kind of code block.
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  • Yup. Definitely seeing it here.
    – ouflak
    Commented Feb 5, 2021 at 11:58
  • Looks like it's defaulting to a code block for some strange reason.
    – ouflak
    Commented Feb 5, 2021 at 12:19
1 
defrecord Person, first_name: nil, last_name: "Dudington" do
  def name record do # huh ?
    "#{record.first_name} #{record.last_name}"
  end
end

defrecord User, name: "José", age: 25

guy = Person.new first_name: "Guy"
guy.name

defmodule ListServer do
  @moduledoc """
  This module provides an easy to use ListServer, useful for keeping
  lists of things.
  """
  use GenServer.Behaviour
  alias Foo.Bar

  ### Public API
  @doc """
  Starts and links a new ListServer, returning {:ok, pid}

  ## Example

    iex> {:ok, pid} = ListServer.start_link

  """
  def start_link do
    :gen_server.start_link({:local, :list}, __MODULE__, [], [])
  end

  ### GenServer API
  def init(list) do
    {:ok, list}
  end

  # Clear the list
  def handle_cast :clear, list do
    {:noreply, []}
  end
end

{:ok, pid} = ListServer.start_link
pid <- {:foo, "bar"}

greeter = fn(x) -> IO.puts "hey #{x}" end
greeter.("Bob")

Compare Elixir example at:https://highlightjs.org/static/demo/

Above code block versus screenshot:

Screenshot of example

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The new code editor:

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User Community - Meta Stack Overflow An attempt to rope @Community into the post (related to a joke on Meta Stack Overflow User Community - Meta Stack Exchange Let's see if it works. [spoiler]experiment-spoiler[/spoiler] Fails. 🙁

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Dear Prof. Smith, Prof. Johnson, Prof. Lee, and Prof. Chun,

(note the “and”).

Also, is the email directly relevant to all four professors? Perhaps you should consider “CC’ing” someone that’s not so relevant (in which case the CC’d person need not be addressed in the salutation)?

It’s my first answer here so any feedback is appreciated.

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This is a test answer to test out a potential bug with edit notifications. Let's see what happens if we add some text.

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Testing Rollbacks

Just a test answer to get my hands on rollbacks. Edit 1111 Edit 2222

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Scenario is I run a hat company, and every year the hat regulator gives us a guideline as to how much we can increase the price:

Year Price increase
2015 n/a first year
2016 +3.2%
2017 +2.2%
2018 +4.0%
2019 +1.0%
2020 +0.0%
2021 +4.0%

So far, I've worked out how to use product and filter to quite easily produce the following output...

Year Price increase Hat price
2015 n/a first year £3.00000
2016 +3.2% £3.09600
2017 +2.2% £3.16411
2018 +4.0% £3.29068
2019 +1.0% £3.32358
2020 +0.0% £3.32358
2021 +4.0% £3.45653

...But in the real world, I wouldn't apply an uplift of 2.2% to a £3.09600 hat and sell it for £3.16411, I actually want to apply it to rounded numbers, so I'd want to calculate (£3.10 + 2.2%) -> £3.1682 -> £3.17 in 2017 for instance. That's a penny different, and I want to introduce these penny differences as they will accumulate over time in the real world.

Does anyone have any suggestions for how I might build a "real world" calculation, where I'd round the price off every year and only apply the increase to the rounded price? Easy in Excel, but I can't work out a way to do it in Power BI without producing a new column for each consecutive year, which is impractical given the size of the real data set.

Ideally I'd want my data set to look like this...

Year Hat price last year Price increase Hat price this year
2015 n/a n/a £3.00
2016 £3.00 +3.2% £3.10
2017 £3.10 +2.2% £3.17
2018 £3.17 +4.0% £3.30

I'd been trying to do something in DAX but I don't think I can direct a calculated column to itself, so I suspect a Power Query solution might be better - but I'm open to a solution in either sphere!

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:root {
    --xyz-ease: cubic-bezier(.26,2.05,.84,.38);
}

body {
    margin: 0;
    height: 100vh;
    display: grid;
    place-items: center;
    background: #466BDA;
}

.phone {
    background: white;
    padding: 1.5em;
    border-radius: 2em;
    position: relative;
    transform: rotateZ(-45deg);
    box-shadow: -30px 30px 0px rgba(0,0,0,.1);

    &:before {
        content: " ";
        position: absolute;
        background-color: #466BDA;
        border-radius: 1em;
        padding: .5em;
        width: 33%;
        top: -5px;
        left: 30%;
    }
}

.square-group {
    display: grid;
    grid-template-areas:
        "square square"
        "square square";

    .square {
        padding: 3em;
        margin: .6em;
        border-radius: .8em;
        background-color: #466BDA;
    }
}

.skeleton-title, .skeleton-title2 {
    padding: .6em;
    margin: 1em .3em;
    border-radius: .8em;
    background-color:#466BDA;
}
.skeleton-title2 {
    width: 60%;
}

.circle-group {
    display: grid;
    grid-template-areas:
        "circle circle circle"
        "circle circle circle";

    .square {
        padding: 2em;
        margin: .6em;
        border-radius: 50%;
        background-color: #466BDA;
    }
}

the output is big so you wont see

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Test which numbers get interpreted as a link by my phone:

Yes Safari: Why does nobody look at my question, it only has 10000000000000000 views

Yes Safari not including last three 0s, DuckDuckGo not including last three 0s: Why does nobody look at my question, it only has 10 000 000 000 000 000 views

Yes Safari, DuckDuckGo: Why does nobody look at my question, it only has 1000000 views

Yes Safari: Why does nobody look at my question, it only has 42000000000000000 views

Yes Safari: Why does nobody look at my question, it only has 10000000000000000,0 views

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Well, you clicked on the text! 

var i = document.getElementsByTagName('p')[0];
var j=0;
for (j=0; j<=1000; j++) {
  i.innerHTML+="&nbsp;"+j;
}
*{word-break:break-word;}
<p>hello world!<br></p>

(function (window, init) {
    window.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded", init);
})(window, function () {
    function getRandom(min, max) {
        return Math.floor(Math.random() * (max - min) + min);
    }
    (function (draw) {
        draw();
    })(function () {
        var ctx1 = document.getElementById("canvas1").getContext("2d");
        // ugly image #1
        for (j = 0; j <= 3600; j += 60) {
            for (i = 20; i <= 3600; i += 20) {
                ctx1.beginPath();
                ctx1.moveTo(j, 0);
                ctx1.lineTo(100, i);
                ctx1.stroke();
            }
        }
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        var ctx2 = document.getElementById("canvas2").getContext("2d");
        for (i = 0; i < 99999; i++) {
            ctx2.beginPath();
            var color = "rgb(" + getRandom(0, 255) + "," + getRandom(0, 255) + "," + getRandom(0, 255) + ")";
            ctx2.strokeStyle = "";
            ctx2.strokeStyle = color;
            ctx2.moveTo(getRandom(0, 400), getRandom(0, 400));
            ctx2.lineTo(getRandom(0, 400), getRandom(0, 400));
            ctx2.stroke();
        }
        // ugly image #3
        var ctx3 = document.getElementById("canvas3").getContext("2d");
        for (k = 0; k < 50; k++) {
            var color = "rgb(" + getRandom(0, 255) + "," + getRandom(0, 255) + "," + getRandom(0, 255) + ")";
            ctx3.strokeStyle = "";
            ctx3.strokeStyle = color;
            ctx3.beginPath();
            ctx3.arc(getRandom(0, 200), getRandom(0, 200), getRandom(0, 200), 0, 2 * Math.PI, false);
            ctx3.stroke();
        }
    });
    (function (addAnchor) {
        addAnchor();
    })(function () {
        var link = document.getElementById("reload");
        var hash = BigInt(getRandom(100000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000, 999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999));
        link.href = "./?hash=" + hash;
    });
});
canvas {
    max-width:600px;
    resize:both;
}
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
    <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width" />
    <title>Canvas Experiment</title>
</head>
<body>
    <h1>Art Fair <a href="?hash=" id="reload">generate new samples</a></h1>
    <h2>Ropes</h2>
    <canvas id="canvas1" style="width:100%; border:1px solid black; height:100%;">
        <p>AAAAAAAAA... <a href="https://chrome.com">AAA AAAAA AAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAA AAAAAA?</a></p>
    </canvas>
    <h2>Everyone Sees Something Different: 99999 Lines</h2>
    <canvas id="canvas2" style="width:100%; border:1px solid black; height:100%;">
        <p>AAAAAAAAA... <a href="https://chrome.com">AAA AAAAA AAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAA AAAAAA?</a></p>
    </canvas>
    <h2>A Bunch of Circles (50 to be exact)</h2>
    <canvas id="canvas3" style="width:100%; border:1px solid black; height:100%;">
        <p>AAAAAAAAA... <a href="https://chrome.com">AAA AAAAA AAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAA AAAAAA?</a></p>
    </canvas>
</body>
</html>

var $password = 'pass';
document.querySelector('[type=password]').pattern = $password;

function hideAll() {
  var $x = document.getElementsByTagName('center');
  for (var $i = 0; $i < $x.length; $i++) {
    $x[$i].style.display = 'none';
  }
}

function login() {
  hideAll();
  document.getElementById('complete').style.display = 'block';
}

function logout() {
  hideAll();
  document.getElementById('login').style.display = 'block';
}

function forgot() {
  hideAll();
  document.getElementById('forgot').style.display = 'block';
  var $random = Math.random();
  $random = Math.round($random * 10000);
  document.querySelector('[type="password"]').pattern = $random;
  document.getElementById('reset').innerHTML = 'New password: ' + $random;
}

function showLogin() {
  hideAll();
  document.getElementById('login').style.display = 'block';
}
center:not(#login) {
  display: none;
}

input:not([type="submit"]) {
  border: none;
  outline: none !important;
  width: 100%;
}
* {
  font-family: Arial;
}
<center id="login">
  <h2>Log In</h2>
  <a href="#" onclick="forgot()">Forgot Password</a>
  <form action="javascript:;" onsubmit="login()">
    <fieldset>
      <legend>Username</legend>
      <input type="text" required="required" />
    </fieldset>
    <fieldset>
      <legend>E-mail</legend>
      <input type="email" required="required" />
    </fieldset>
    <fieldset>
      <legend>Password (default: pass)</legend>
      <input type="password" required="required" />
    </fieldset>
    <input type="submit" value="Log In" />
  </form>
</center>
<center id="complete">
  <h2>Logged In</h2>
  <a href="#" onclick="logout()">Log Out</a>
</center>
<center id="forgot">
  <h2>Password Reset</h2>
  <p id="reset"></p>
  <a href="#" onclick="showLogin()">&laquo; Back</a>
</center>

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This is a test sentence for testing purposes.

Testing ~ in URLs:

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1 
<!-- language-all: lang-swift -->

Ok I gave a [VBA solution][1] but here's a pure Excel version using the relatively new LAMBDA functions, no VBA. 

To achieve this I have created a named function with signature `printf(mask, tokensArray)` where:
 - `mask` is a string you want to format, containing positional `{}` or indexed `{i}` interpolation locations.
 - `tokensArray` is the set of values to be substituted in, supplied as either a 1D Range (row or column), an array (hardcoded or returned from a function) or a single value.

... and which returns a formatted string. Called from a cell like:

[![Tooltip][3]][3]


[![Usage][4]][4]

    =printf("Some text '{1}', more text: '{2}'", A1:A2) //continuous 1D row/col
    =printf("Some text '{1}', more text: '{2}'", {"foo","bar"}) //hardcoded array
    =printf("Single Value {1}", "foo")

or with positional args (left to right)

    =printf("Some text '{}', more text: '{}'", A1:A2)

---

Define these two functions by entering them in the name manager (see [LAMBDA function][2] MSDN docs for detailed instructions, though this link will die I'm sure...) :

| Param     | Value                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            |
|-----------|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| Name      | ReplaceRecursive                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 |
| Scope     | Workbook                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         |
| Comment   | Recursively substitutes {} or {i} with tokens from the tokens list, which it escapes one by one leaving \} in the result string                                                                                                                                                                                                                  |
| Refers To | `=LAMBDA(mask,tokens,i,tokenCount, IF(i >tokenCount, mask, LET(token, INDEX(tokens,i),escapedToken,SUBSTITUTE(token,"}", "\}"),inIndexedMode,ISERROR(FIND("{}",mask,1)),substituted, IF(inIndexedMode, SUBSTITUTE(mask,"{"&i&"}", escapedToken),SUBSTITUTE(mask, "{}", escapedToken,1) ),ReplaceRecursive(substituted,tokens,i+1,tokenCount))))` |

<details><summary>Prettified<\summary>
```lang-swift
=LAMBDA(
    mask,
    tokens,
    i,
    tokenCount,
    IF(
        i > tokenCount,
        mask,
        LET(
            token,
            INDEX(
                tokens,
                i
            ),
            escapedToken,
            SUBSTITUTE(
                token,
                "}",
                "\}"
            ),
            inIndexedMode,
            ISERROR(
                FIND(
                    "{}",
                    mask,
                    1
                )
            ),
            substituted,
            IF(
                inIndexedMode,
                SUBSTITUTE(
                    mask,
                    "{" & i & "}",
                    escapedToken
                ),
                SUBSTITUTE(
                    mask,
                    "{}",
                    escapedToken,
                    1
                )
            ),
            ReplaceRecursive(
                substituted,
                tokens,
                i + 1,
                tokenCount
            )
        )
    )
)
```
</details>

| Param     | Value                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          |
|-----------|------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| Name      | printf                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         |
| Scope     | Workbook                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       |
| Comment   | printf(mask: str, tokensArray: {array,} \| range \| str ) -> str \| mask: string to substitute tokens into e.g. "Hello {}, {}" or "Hello {2}, {1}" (1-indexed) \| tokensArray: 1D range or array of tokens, e.g. "world" or {"foo","bar"} or A1:A5 |
| Refers To | `=LAMBDA(mask,tokensArray,LET(r,ROWS(tokensArray), c, COLUMNS(tokensArray), length, MAX(r,c), IF(AND(r>1, c>1), "tokensArray must be 1 dimensional", SUBSTITUTE(ReplaceRecursive(mask, tokensArray, 1, length), "\}","}"))))`                  |

```lang-swift
=LAMBDA(
    mask,
    tokensArray,
    LET(
        r,
        ROWS(
            tokensArray
        ),
        c,
        COLUMNS(
            tokensArray
        ),
        length,
        MAX(
            r,
            c
        ),
        IF(
            AND(
                r > 1,
                c > 1
            ),
            "tokensArray must be 1 dimensional",
            SUBSTITUTE(
                ReplaceRecursive(
                    mask,
                    tokensArray,
                    1,
                    length
                ),
                "\}",
                "}"
            )
        )
    )
)
```

---

There will be improvements to Excel's LAMBDA functions that make this easier to write I'm sure, but this recursive approach is good for now I think.


  [1]: https://stackoverflow.com/a/67858844/6609896
  [2]: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/lambda-function-bd212d27-1cd1-4321-a34a-ccbf254b8b67
  [3]: https://i.sstatic.net/cyDQ5.png
  [4]: https://i.sstatic.net/Dv8DR.png
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I need this answer for a thing™

Because I can't fall under 30 characters, here's some copy-pasta from the question:

Beware that since the changes to syntax highlighting in December 2010, and the inline hints added in March 2011, no syntax highlighting is applied unless the question's tags or an inline hint enable it. So, to test highlighting here in the sandbox:

The Thing:

I also need an edge case.

I also need an edge case?

I also need an edge case.

I also need an edge case?

I forgot, are quotes continuous?

Line 1 Line 2

Line 3 with preceding angle bracket

Line 4 without preceding angle bracket
line with trailing

Line without trailing line after

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Markdown:

**Id**|**Value**
:-----:|:-----:
7E38AD4A-4C6E-40D9-B805-08C1F4EE14D0|1,370
E48A0A4A-6E6C-41A8-B379-0E14452938C6|1,200

Table:

Value
7E38AD4A-4C6E-40D9-B805-08C1F4EE14D0
E48A0A4A-6E6C-41A8-B379-0E14452938C6

Markdown:

Here is my sample data:
|ID|Name|
|-|-|
|1|Steve|
|2|Jane|

Here is my sample data: |ID|Name| |-|-| |1|Steve| |2|Jane|

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Use Snippets to display Google Charts.

google.charts.load('current', {packages: ['corechart', 'line']});
google.charts.setOnLoadCallback(drawBackgroundColor);

function drawBackgroundColor() {
  var data = new google.visualization.DataTable();
  data.addColumn('number', 'X');
  data.addColumn('number', 'Dogs');

  data.addRows([
    [0, 0],   [1, 10],  [2, 23],  [3, 17],  [4, 18],  [5, 9],
    [6, 11],  [7, 27],  [8, 33],  [9, 40],  [10, 32], [11, 35],
    [12, 30], [13, 40], [14, 42], [15, 47], [16, 44], [17, 48],
    [18, 52], [19, 54], [20, 42], [21, 55], [22, 56], [23, 57],
    [24, 60], [25, 50], [26, 52], [27, 51], [28, 49], [29, 53],
    [30, 55], [31, 60], [32, 61], [33, 59], [34, 62], [35, 65],
    [36, 62], [37, 58], [38, 55], [39, 61], [40, 64], [41, 65],
    [42, 63], [43, 66], [44, 67], [45, 69], [46, 69], [47, 70],
    [48, 72], [49, 68], [50, 66], [51, 65], [52, 67], [53, 70],
    [54, 71], [55, 72], [56, 73], [57, 75], [58, 70], [59, 68],
    [60, 64], [61, 60], [62, 65], [63, 67], [64, 68], [65, 69],
    [66, 70], [67, 72], [68, 75], [69, 80]
  ]);

  var options = {
    hAxis: {
      title: 'Time'
    },
    vAxis: {
      title: 'Popularity'
    },
    backgroundColor: '#f1f8e9'
  };

  var chart = new google.visualization.LineChart(document.getElementById('chart_div'));
  chart.draw(data, options);
}
<script type="text/javascript" src="https://www.gstatic.com/charts/loader.js"></script>

<div id="chart_div"></div>

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Let's put a button:

button

Link to SVG here.

Self description:
button

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Just an answer for some comment testing.

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  • will this comment do something with hats?
    – Luuklag
    Commented Dec 15, 2021 at 15:32
  • And how about this comment then?
    – Luuklag
    Commented Dec 15, 2021 at 15:39
  • feel free to test if replying to me gives any hats :)
    – Ekadh Singh
    Commented Dec 16, 2021 at 19:33
  • This comment has been edited.
    – MrMythical
    Commented Feb 8, 2022 at 14:27
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Here's another oddity:

A quote.

Another paragraph:

A nested quote.

All is good.

But what about this:

  • A list item

    A quote.

    Another paragraph:

    A nested quote.

    All is good.

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This comes from https://stackoverflow.com/a/71021836/2987828 and adding newlines before and after the table doesn't help, at least there.

To enter a permanent breakpoint in python3.7+, insert the expression breakpoint() in the source file. No more need to import anything, even pdb. In non-compiled Matlab the equivalent to breakpoint() is the statement keyboard.

The global picture is that after python's debug prompt (Pdb) (shown by breakpoint()) you add ! before non-debugging commands, whereas after Matlab's debug prompt K> you add db before debugging commands.

I am also migrating from Matlab to Python. I am used to debugging inside matlab -nodisplay, and am switching to python3.10 without IDE. These are pretty similar. So I will continue this debugging-related rosetta stone.

You can create other breakpoints, using command tb or b, from that (Pdb) prompt (or in your file $HOME/.pdbrc). As their Matlab's counterpart dbstop, you can set them for another file, another line and let them be conditional.

Here is a short rosetta stone:

python python's available shortcut Matlab
breakpoint() keyboard
where w dbstack
cont c dbcont
up u dbup
down d dbdown
step s dbstep
next n dbnext
print expression p expression expression
!nonlocal var;var= var=
break b dbstop and dbstatus
clear cl dbclear
list l dbtype
display d variable window

Matlab does have no equivalent for:

  • ignore n p (n-th breakpoint will only trigger prompt after p-th execution)
  • prettyprint expression (shortcut: pp)
  • jump codelinenumber (shortcut: j)

I still don't know if Python has any usable equivalents for save and load, evalin(caller,expr), and plots while debugging.

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Spoiler:

Not spoiled!

Spoiled!

Not spoiled!

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Syntax highlighting currently strips HTML tags in <pre><code> blocks

(Since Highlight.js is being used instead of Prettify.)

HTML tags work inside <pre> blocks:

SELECT a, not_b FROM tbl WHERE a < b;

Same with <pre><code> blocks - here on meta.SE where automatic code highlighting is deactivated:

SELECT a, not_b FROM tbl WHERE a < b;

The same breaks on SO with automatic code highlighting. Highlight.js strips all tags before adding syntax-highlighting.

I set a language explicitly with <!-- language-all: lang-sql --> to trigger the same effect here:

HTML tags still work inside <pre> blocks:

SELECT a, not_b FROM tbl WHERE a < b;

But are stripped from <pre><code> blocks:

SELECT a, not_b FROM tbl WHERE a < b;  -- not the intended meaning

While editing, the local preview is rendered differently, and HTML tags seem to work even in <pre><code> blocks. But that's deceiving. Once the draft is saved, syntax-highlighting with Highlight.js kicks in and strips all HTML tags before adding colors - possibly breaking the meaning, especially for <strike>.

This used to work, but is currently broken. See:

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Sure hope I don't get answer banned, that would be a real shame.

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Testing comment upvote by low rep user.

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  • hey sockboy, just a test
    – Luuklag
    Commented May 2, 2022 at 13:54
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fetch('https://api.stackexchange.com/2.3/sites?pagesize=500&filter=!*UCL0ITv.)X')
  .then(r => r.json())
  .then(r => r.items.forEach(site => {
    let div = document.createElement('div');
    div.classList.add('x');
    div.style = `--imgurl:url(${site.favicon_url})`;
    document.body.appendChild(div);
  }));
.x { background-image: var(--imgurl); }
body { display: grid; grid-template-columns: repeat(5,1fr); }
div { flex: 1; height: 100px; }

it's better fullscreen btw

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This answer is to test the issue in:

"https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/419387/stack-overflow-urls-in-double-quotes-in-answers-are-not-replaced-by-the-name-of"
"https://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/345847/3773011"

The above is:

"https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/419387/stack-overflow-urls-in-double-quotes-in-answers-are-not-replaced-by-the-name-of"  
"https://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/345847/3773011"

which render in the preview as links with the question title as the link text. In the post as rendered by SE's servers, it shows as a bare URL in double quotes.

The following is:

https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/419387/stack-overflow-urls-in-double-quotes-in-answers-are-not-replaced-by-the-name-of  
https://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/345847/3773011

Stack Overflow URLs in double quotes in answers are not replaced by the name of the question
Editor preview disagrees on link title

which also renders in both the preview and server rendered version as the question titles.

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This is just an answer in order to test some site functionality with a low reputation account.

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I am also testing something. Does this work?

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  • What did you test?
    – Shadow Wizard
    Commented Sep 16, 2022 at 12:53
  • @ShadowTheKidWizard I wanted to see if there's a message going to show up when submitting the answer.
    – Dharman
    Commented Sep 16, 2022 at 13:01
  • What message were you expecting to show?
    – Shadow Wizard
    Commented Sep 16, 2022 at 13:12
  • A warning of some kind about low-length or poor quality.
    – Dharman
    Commented Sep 16, 2022 at 13:12
  • Oh, I think MSE and meta sites in general don't have quality filter, so that people can ask about such things or test, not sure. Didn't find official source, will keep looking.
    – Shadow Wizard
    Commented Sep 16, 2022 at 13:15
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