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Incorrect rendering in all but answer list
If I visit https://android.stackexchange.com/a/205140/311449, the lists are how I expect them to be - correctly indented:
However, that same source code's rendering shall break, should I:
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HTML tables are unusable [duplicate]
I want to modify https://stackoverflow.com/revisions/56857772/2#:~:text=http%3A%2F%2F%20www.%20example,user%20%40%20example.com
Source
The following **bold** parts of URLs *may* be case-sensitive, ...
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Post formatting is not accurate for numbered lists of code blocks. Is this a bug?
Compare the way this list looks in the post versus the screenshot of the preview:
text:
1.
{ label: `Baz ${x ? n1 : n2}`, kind: "B", } satisfies B,
1.
{ label: `Baz ${x ? n1 : n2}` ...
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URLs in double quotes are not resolved [duplicate]
There seems to be a bug inasmuch that there is a disparity between the auto-resolving of Stack Exchange URLs within double-quotes contained in posts in normal viewing mode and in edit mode.
Example (...
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Missing a backtick from Markdown table in preview was well rendered, but not server side
Related: https://askubuntu.com/a/1464175/93706
In the table below, 1{print} is missing its closing backtick. The preview handles this well by having it render as plain text instead of code but when ...
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Tables just became broken in Markdown preview
I just tried to insert a table while writing a post but it appeared broken in the preview. I used the basic example shown in the "formatting tips" to confirm:
| A header | Another header |
| ...
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Stacks Editor Markdown preview mode is now available
Following the alpha release of the Stacks Editor, we got lots of feedback (including three out of the top four answers on the post, as well as other answers below and many comments) asking for a way ...
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Block quote handling mismatch between preview and post
Noticed on my answer to a question on BGSE, the preview and the posted answer, the block quote is handled differently:
This is the markup for my rules quote:
Here is the preview that shows below the ...
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Markdown tables with unmatched backtick \` should either not show as a table in preview or show correctly after preview
I spotted a discrepancy between Markdown preview and posted questions. This discrepancy also holds for answers.
When using unmatched backticks ` inside a table cell, like in following source:
|header1|...
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Quotes prevent auto-linking Stack Exchange question URLs, but the preview doesn't reflect this? [duplicate]
Compare this preview of editing a post (the same is true when writing):
With the results:
Can this get fixed at some point?
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Some Markdown tables incorrectly omit an entire column in the rendered post, but display correctly in the preview
This is not a duplicate of the following posts:
Markdown table preview does not detect missing blank line before table header - that question is reporting a different issue, a problem with tables ...
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Unordered list is shown as nested in the on-site rendering but flat in the post editor
I use Chrome (latest version), and there is an obvious bug.
Look at this post.
Click to "edit" that post and without making any changes, just look at that post how it looks like in the &...
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Period (.) after a link renders after the link in preview, but as part of the link in the rendered post, when there are bold/italic markers
This is not a duplicate of this similar, much older bug report, as the Markdown renderers have changed since that report (as a result of the CommonMark transition), and that report was marked ...
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Question URL with quotes displays the actual question title during the edit preview, but not when the edit is saved
The Space SE question What have astronauts used rolls of Kapton tape for? originally looks like this to me:
Enclosing the URLs in quotes prevents the replacement of the URL with the actual question ...
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Markdown list rendering mismatch between preview and actual post
I was browsing a Stack Overflow question and in an answer there is an ordered list, but it was written using ) instead of . so I tried to edit it.
When in click edit the list was rendered correctly as ...
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Table Markdown content in a question breaks only when posted [duplicate]
A user on Puzzling.SE reported this apparent bug:
This is what it looked like in the preview thing in the edit mode,
Then, this is what it looked like in question.
We already know that a broken ...
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Markdown Table Display Bug
I just noticed this answer that got bumped up recently on RPG SE. The editor was trying to replace a formerly MathJax-based table with one in Markdown, which is fine. But the table isn't working at ...
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Markdown table preview does not detect missing blank line before table header
When I edited an answer on Electrical Engineering Meta to add a second markdown table, both the first and second tables rendered correctly in preview, but the second table does not render. I've waited ...
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Markdown rendering: Trailing backslash for line break is incorrectly included in URLs but works in preview
I have found a bug with the Markdown renderer which causes a difference between what the preview shows and how it is being rendered after posting. The issue appears when attempting to use a forced ...
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Link in quotes rendered as title in edit preview mode but as URL in the rendered post
It looks like links to questions within quotes are being rendered with the question title in the edit mode preview, but as a URL in normal viewing.
Given the following question Markdown:
Testing some ...
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Formatting tip says 4 spaces are needed for nested lists when it appears to be 3
It looks like I was able to make a nested list by using 3 spaces (and then 2 spaces for each additional nested list), even though the formatting tip says "4 or 8 spaces" are required. See ...
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Question and answer preview is wrongly rendering some Markdown
As you know, an equal sign (=) under a line means header formatting in Markdown (see Markdown Help, for those who don't). The text below:
Example
has one = underneath it, but with a =) it looks like ...
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"About me" preview wrongly renders some Markdown
When I edit the "About me" section on any of my accounts I see this:
Under the "About me" box we can see exactly what I would like to display in my "About me" sections.
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Preview ignores leading whitespace
Markdown source:
flush left
indent
more indent
Renders correctly as:
flush left
indent
more indent
But edit this post, and notice that the leading whitespace is ignored in the preview:
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Bug within text editor or front end at all
In a question on Security.SE, I've found a possible bug.
The left side of the screenshot is how it looks on the front end of the site, and the right side shows how it looks when editing.
You might ...
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URL preview doesn't match what's rendered
In this question, this url -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N%C4%ABlaka%E1%B9%87%E1%B9%ADha_Dh%C4%81ra%E1%B9%87%C4%AB -- looks like this in the preview ...
... and like this in the posted question ......
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Headline format differs in preview from published [duplicate]
On SO I was just editing an answer when I noticed this.
In the preview the headline appears large & bold:
but in the published version it is just followed by an HR:
I was editing https://...
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Editor preview shows links clickable, final rendered post doesn't, when surrounded by [] [duplicate]
[https://example.com/] appears as a clickable link in the preview, but not in the final render when saved.
This applies to at least the inline editor (tested on Stack Overflow) and question-ask page ...
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Quoted headings are rendered properly on preview but not when posted
With markdown, you can use some dashes for headings. For example, this:
Hello
----
this is some other text
renders as this:
Hello
this is some other text
This is fine and works well. When I want to ...
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<s>links</s> are autocompleted on preview but not rendered when posted [duplicate]
Using question links conversion into links with titles, if you paste https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/350279/209901 in a post, then it gets converted into a proper link to that question: Does <...
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Can we warn users if the first line of a code block is silently discarded if placed on the same line as ```?
Here's an example. If a user types following into the question box:
```#include <iostream>
int main()
{
std::cout << "Hello, world!\n";
}
```
It will look like this:
int ...
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Markdown inconsistency between preview and post when using blank lines [duplicate]
This happened in an answer on Code Golf.SE, where we have all sorts of uncommon programming languages to put in a code block.
OP's code is copied here at the markdown level:
bbcccbc-cc-b--b-- c
b
&#...
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Discrepancies in CommonMark rendering
One of the users on Stack Overflow pointed out that the rendered version of some posts is not what the preview or revision shows. After triggering a re-render the glitch was gone, but since it is not ...
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Link renders differently on client and server side when preceded by a special character
When editing a question on History of Science and Mathematics, I observed that a link which was not rendered in the post was hyperlinked in the edit preview (see pictures below). I tried reproducing ...
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Strikethrough markdown not rendering on post, but works on preview [duplicate]
I just made an edit to a question on an SE site. I wanted to strikeout some of the text, so I used the ~~ wrap to do this. I could see this correctly applied in the preview.
However, after posting the ...
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Headers aren't bold on profile but the editor lies
See my profile (archive from when this was written). The text at the top of my bio is a header, and it is not bold other than a word I put in bold:
However, the editor lies! It looks bold in the ...
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URL with multiple ending parentheses produces broken links in markdown preview
I tried to create a link to https://docs.racket-lang.org/reference/Filesystem.html?q=rktl#(idx._(gentag._305._(lib._scribblings%2Freference%2Freference..scrbl))) using Markdown in this way:
[example]...
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Visibility of links with uppercase letters in protocol section is inconsistent
Any link is visible in post preview despite of case in protocol section. But only links where protocol in lowercase are visible in result.
Here is the link with uppercase letter in protocol section: ...
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Link formatting broken when it renders correctly in preview
I went back to an older answer of mine and I realized that the link formatting was broken (as you can see in this revision):
But the preview (see—but don't save—here) showed that everything looked OK:...
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Intra-word emphasis using Pagedown vs. Stack Exchange's WMD Editor
Why does Stack Exchange's WMD Editor allow you to do things like bold parts of sentences while the Open Source PageDown (https://github.com/StackExchange/pagedown) does not?
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Feature Request : Visual Post Editor [closed]
Posting in StackOverFlow isn't visual. Users have to fetch what it will look like and have to post. So, please add a feature of visual editing (Like Wordpress).
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Editor preview resolves title to HTTP links but rendered post does not
The editor and the actual rendering of a post differ in their treatment of post link title expansions for non-HTTPS links. For example, the following:
HTTPS: Network-wide HTTPS: It's time
HTTP: ...
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Incorrect preview for link with closing parenthesis at the end
When I write a link whose URL ends with a closing parenthesis, it's handled correctly when I save the post, but not when I look at it in a preview.
For example this markdown:
[`CSharpCompilation....
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Bug in markdown parser - Horizontal line parser
Symptoms
The following input causes stackexchange page to freeze (give it a try :P)
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This is caused by a ...
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Preview formatting doesn't match real formatting when italics are within quotation marks
I am currently editing a post. The first line is
i have two tables "*TABLE_A*" and "*TABLE_B*",
The italics work in the preview, but not in the rendered post. In the rendered post, I can see the ...
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Formatting bug: preview doesn't look the same as the published question or answer
In answering a question earlier today, I used some funky formatting. While this formatting might not be the best way of doing things, there is still a bug where the preview question doesn't look the ...
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Why does this markdown preview differently?
See this question. When published, the markdown does not render the same way it does in preview for edit mode. The numbered list does not continue when published, but appears to continue in preview. ...
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markdown preview / final result, issue with quoted "*"
in this answer by Olivier Dulac: https://stackoverflow.com/a/16989110/592540 there appears to be a difference between the preview of the answer when editing and when the final result is published.
In ...
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links with $ signs handled ambiguously
It appears that links like http://nginx.org/r/$uri are shown with the $uri part being part of the link during the live preview (JavaScript), yet not when shown statically on the page (server-side).
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Effect of * in quoted text not shown in preview but affected actual post
In my recent post, In quoted text of first special parameter description, The preview shows well:
But in actual post * effect cause inclined text:
So, Why preview!=actual of post? and How to fix it?
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