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Code block is not properly formatted when placed immediately after a list item [duplicate]
Consider the following piece of Markdown code:
This is some regular text.
>>> def factorial(n):
... return 1 if n < 2 else n * factorial(n - 1)
...
* This is a list ...
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Why should users have to press Return twice to insert new lines?
When I post a question and want to add a new line, I have to press Return two times, or else the next text will appear on the same line.
Is this really supposed to behave this way? If so, why?
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Markdown in chat fails for multi-line messages
We've come to rename Markdown to Letdown in the C++ chat room because it lets you down so often. I've now just found a pattern.
It seems markdown fails for multi-line messages. That is, this
Letdown ...
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My comment `code block` was not converted properly, is this a bug?
In my comment here:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/409/what-is-your-favorite-coding-guidelines-checklist/138993#comment-8835926
I needed to have a : symbol with a leading space, but I couldn't ...
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Links with URIs of schemes other than http/https are broken
It seems like the engine completely breaks all links that use a URI with a scheme other than 'http' or 'https'. Web != Internet, guys! ;)
For example, the market scheme links to the Android market:
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New "[tag:" syntax interferes with Markdown links
Links in [link text][number] format don't work properly if they follow a tag using the new [tag:tagName] format. Here's the result of [tag:python] [gold badge page][1]:
python [gold badge page]1
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Blockquote rewrap destroys code
I've seen too many newbies hit the "quote" button instead of the "code" button while posting. This is much worse than if they just left the code inline, because the quote button rewraps all the text ...
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Comments don't have formatting tags or line breaks
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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markdown can't handle tags with asterisks
On the main site, you can (for example) ignore tags using this notation [tag:foo*], which will ignore stuff tagged as foo but also foo-bar.
The nice markdown highlighter for tags seems to have a ...
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Spacing oddity between lists when lists are found consecutively
Markdown:
1. Item 1
1. Item 2
1. Item 3
1. Item 4
1. Item 5
Now outputted as:
Item 1
Item 2
Item 3
Item 4
Item 5
The visual gap after item 3 appears to be an error. If I stick anything non-list ...
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Inconsistent/incorrect breaks/newlines in lists
When editing this answer, I noticed that placing breaks (blank lines) in lists (especially nested lists) is inconsistent (and possibly dependent on the current state of the JavaScript variables of the ...
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Markdown code snippets don't allow trailing spaces
I was answering a question on Stack Overflow and required to use a trailing space in one of my code snippets.
I formatted it like so:
`<a `
And it renders without the trailing space: <a
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Using bold or italics within a word in a comment does not work [duplicate]
I just tried to comment multiple times on "November 2011 Moderator Election: Town Hall Chat (scheduled)".
The intended comment was to be rendered as:
not "maderator nominations"
But instead, it ...
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Spoiler Markdown shows up as normal blockquote
In the question What was Dooku's plan for the Battle of Coruscant?, I used the >! syntax to create a spoiler section, but it shows up as a normal blockquote with a ! at its start.
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Problem with markdown and Unicode characters in comments [duplicate]
Unicode characters (as well as characters from the extended character-set) don’t work with the markdown in comments.
In a question or answer, when you use Unicode characters (or extended characters ...
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Dollar Sign corrupts question [duplicate]
In https://robotics.stackexchange.com/questions my question (Which is easier/cheaper: Hbridge vs ESC for controlling a motor?) contains a "$" in a quoted section of the question. Originally I had a ...
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List entry followed by code block messes up the code section [duplicate]
Here's two examples (note that in first example, backticks also had no effect, for some reason):
include/db.php:
$attribs =
array(
PDO::ATTR_PERSISTENT => $...
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Spoiler text doesn't work with numbered lists - Intended behavior? Workaround?
The spoiler markdown is sometimes cough messed up. Today's edition: Spoiler doesn't work with numbered lists.
>! 1. Foo
2. Bar
3. Baz
renders like
! 1. Foo
2. Bar
3. Baz
I could ...
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Markdown support for URLs without a protocol
If this does not classify as a bug (probably status-bydesign anyway), then I would like to present this as a feature-request for convenience when copy-pasting certain URLs.
The [Title](URL) markdown ...
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Why does the following Markdown (blockquote, code block, #) render the way it does?
Why does the following Markdown:
> ```
# test
render as it does?
<h1>test</h1>
Yes, you see that right: the # is converted even though it's inside a code block. Furthermore, it's ...
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Line after blockquote in spoiler not a spoiler?
When putting a blockquote in a spoiler, the line(s) after the blockquote are not hidden; this does not seem to be the behaviour I would expect? Hovering over the spoiler reveals the hidden text as ...
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Problems creating a bullet and number list with markdown
I'm struggling to format a bullet list, a number list and then a bullet list.
This question isn't looking right:
Frequent error messages when connecting to Windows file shares from a Mac under a VPN ...
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Link not working in profile description
I have experienced real strange behaviour in my profile description; links do not work/display at all. Assuming I used correct markdown - as I used both the markdown I usually use, and the official ...
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Search queries in quotes that contain certain words are ignored in the results' excerpts
In the first result, "test this" appears later in the question, and is not displayed.
In the second result, "test this" appears in the excerpt, since it's already in the excerpt from the unquoted ...
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Heading and HR markdown conflict with each other
In the markdown editing reference page it states that horizontal rules could be made using the following:
Insert a horizontal rule <hr/> by
putting three or more hyphens,
asterisks, or ...
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Display error when nesting <pre/> in <code/> elements
I have found an issue in this question: How to get list of values in GROUP_BY clause?
Check this out. I enter the following piece of HTML:
<code><pre>hello</pre></code>
It ...
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Post preview breaks URLs with square brackets
The markdown editor breaks URLs that have a [] in them in the post preview. For example:
Test link
the URL is:
http://www.example.com?array[]=item1
it works fine in the final result, though, so it'...
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HTML comments break formatting from that point
I was writing up a signpost support question on our site meta. That post included a link which would need to be updated to another such question once asked. I therefore wanted to include an HTML ...
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URL not rendering on StackOverflow
I've been having trouble with this lately. Can someone tell me what's wrong with my URL syntax in my answer to this question:
Programming Technique: How to create a simple card game
I've tried:
[...
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Fenced code markdowns in posts before 2019 doesn't render correctly
This answer on Ask Ubuntu was posted in October 2016. The last revision was made then only and there answerer used fenced code markdown (```) which at that moment wasn't introduced on Stack Exchange. ...
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URL from code.google.com is not markdown-parsable [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Markdown rendering URLs with spaces
The following URL from Google Code does not seems to be parsable using the markdown Ajax widget used by Stack Overflow.
http://www....
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Character formatting leaks into tag links
asdf
asdf asdf asdf
asdf asdf asdf
asdf asdf asdf
You can also do asdf, but that's probably okay to leave alone. It's mainly just the character styles (bold, italic, etc.) that I think could use ...
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GitHub-style code blocks not recognized when updating code per jsFiddle warning
I edited a question on Stack Overflow adding a jsFiddle link to a sample fragment. Stack Overflow said:
Links to jsfiddle.net must be accompanied by code
So I added:
```
... my code ...
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