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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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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, 2010 at 9:47
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    Its sad whe cannot have even line breaks in comments :S
    – VSP
    May 19, 2010 at 9:52
  • @Johannes Rössel: Wow, same thing happened to me: meta.stackexchange.com/questions/50447
    – Konrad Rudolph
    May 19, 2010 at 9:54
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    @ase69s, _____________________________________________________________________________________________ Yeah, _____________________________________________________________________________________________ You _____________________________________________________________________________________________ cannot _____________________________________________________________________________________________ have _____________________________________________________________________________________________ it, unless you overflow it :)
    – YOU
    May 19, 2010 at 10:47
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    @S.Mark: ̶T̶h̶a̶t̶s ̶g̶r̶e̶a̶t ;-)
    – Andy E
    May 19, 2010 at 13:14
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    And I would hate to read comments if they all looked like that!!!!
    – The Unhandled Exception
    May 19, 2010 at 13:16
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    @SMark stop breaking comments! Damn kinds with your fancy overflows!!
    – alex
    May 19, 2010 at 14:15
  • is this really ............................................................................................. the              only _____________________________________________________________________________________________ way?
    – n611x007
    Apr 22, 2015 at 11:03
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(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!

Allow HTML tags in comments

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    sorry but why not line-breaks? via double space?
    – n611x007
    Apr 22, 2015 at 11:12
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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.

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