I noticed that comments do not support formatting and line breaks like we have in posts.
The markdown help doesn't seem to apply to the comments, so I think it is a bug.
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meta.stackexchange.com/questions/19756/… – Jon Seigel May 19 '10 at 13:38
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possible duplicate of What markdown is allowed in comments? – perbert May 19 '10 at 14:00
Comments have no line breaks and generally no block-level formatting (such as extended blocks of code).
You can, however, use some of the same formatting that applies to normal posts:
- Italics
*Italics*Also_Also_ - Bold
**Bold**Also__Also__ - *Bold italics are not allowed*
***Bold italics are not allowed*** Code`Code`- links
[links](https://meta.stackoverflow.com/ "Meta")
For a more complete explanation, you can see the relevant part of the FAQ.
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Note to add: The comment syntax is superficially similar to the one used in posts but differs in a number of headachy ways. You can hope never to encounter those cases, though :-) – Joey May 19 '10 at 9:47
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@Johannes Rössel: Wow, same thing happened to me: meta.stackexchange.com/questions/50447 – Konrad Rudolph May 19 '10 at 9:54
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17@ase69s, _____________________________________________________________________________________________ Yeah, _____________________________________________________________________________________________ You _____________________________________________________________________________________________ cannot _____________________________________________________________________________________________ have _____________________________________________________________________________________________ it, unless you overflow it :) – YOU May 19 '10 at 10:47
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6And I would hate to read comments if they all looked like that!!!! – The Unhandled Exception May 19 '10 at 13:16
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is this really ............................................................................................. the only _____________________________________________________________________________________________ way? – n611x007 Apr 22 '15 at 11:03
(Don't forget inline links!)
We do allow very limited markdown in comments now:
*and_for bold, italic- `` for code blocks
[example](http://example.com "merely an example")
No HTML, just Markdown in comments, please!
answered May 19 '10 at 9:54
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Some of the formatting works in comments. Notably inline links, *emphasis*, **strong emphasis** and `code`.
This is all I could find in reference: a blog post about the changes.
answered May 19 '10 at 9:42
