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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Quotes override list item numbers
Possible bug. Numbers after quote markdown get overridden
Example (edit to see the problem):
This is my first very important point
This is a very interesting point
This is my second ...
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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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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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Adjacent lists in WMD swallowed into a single list
Obviously, there not being a way to specify the end of a list, and multiple line breaks making list item contents paragraphs, the only way to have adjacent lists is to alternate between ordered and ...
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Minor preview bug - mixed case HtTp urls display in preview but disappear from 'live' post
Here is an example:
http://www.google.com -> http://www.google.com
Http://www.google.com->
If you edit this question you'll see that both urls display in the preview - but the second one mixed-...
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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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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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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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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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Funny nesting of links and bold
See original post here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6925223/whats-the-easiest-way-to-get-a-random-number-from-0-to-9-in-c/6925263#6925263
If I nest the link brackets within the bold tag it ...
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Paths with trailing slashes being rendered incorrectly in chat
Consider the following markdown:
`C:\`
In chat, this is rendered as follows:
Instead of the expected output:
C:\
Using two slashes doesn't help:
Although the slash appears, the text is not ...
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Intra word markdown doesn't function properly when combining italic and bold
I mean, why can I write in thisway, (just bolding: **wo**rd, or just italicizing:*wo*rd), but I can't ***comb***ine bold and italic?
It works non-intra-word, but doesn't work ***intra-***word.
Is it ...
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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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Link titles are sometimes displayed in the text when a long text is pasted in
I thought I'd be clever and embed a pithy saying in a link title, but the title was displayed in the text of the post rather than the alt text. After some experimentation, it seemed as if the problem ...
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A specific markdown link doesn't render
In this answer, my link for ISS isn't getting rendered correctly.
What's wrong?
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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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Is this intended (* in chats)
It is stated in the stackoverflow FAQ: https://chat.stackoverflow.com/faq#formatting
*italic* or _italic_
**bold** or __bold__
so when I type three * followed by a word followed by another three * I ...
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Why is this last line of C++ code not formatted as code? [duplicate]
In Mark Wilkins' answer to Counter not giving the expected result, he has some c++ code that looks like this:
if (i == var4)
{
cout << "\n Armstrong number " << counter <&...
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Is this how Markdown should be rendering code inside a list?
I believe the following example needs no explanation.
What is going on here?
Why would you do this?
(function() {
// Do Stuff
})();
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Adding hyperlink markdown after "[] " renders the link incorrectly
The hyperlink markdown seems to break when you have "[] " immediately before link text. I noticed having spaces between the bracket groups doesn't effect the outcome. Maybe it should?
Source: byte[] ...
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Bug with tag markdown in migrated question from Meta.SO
This question, recently migrated from Meta.SO, has some joke tag markdown at the end to the non-existent tag catharsis.
The problem is, it still links to Stack Overflow (instead of on MSE, where it ...
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Unable to rollback to previous revision
I edited my answer because the information was no longer accurate.
However, after editing I found that the formatting was broken, so I rolled it back to the previous version.
Unfortunately after the ...
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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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Markdown not correctly generating links
Reading through this page, and one of the articles prev/next links weren't linking. Went to fix it, but finally decided it was correct (or at least consistent with other working posts), so I assume it ...
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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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Markdown rendering issue [duplicate]
Windows is shutting down screen takes a long 20 minutes (revision 2) on SU renders the markdown incorrectly:
This might be a duplicate of The case of the bleeding monospace font!, but as I don't want ...
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<a> Links to URLS with square brackets in don't work
Creating an a href link to a URL which contains square brackets causes Stack Overflow to ignore the link. According to this post, there were similar problems in markdown, but I can't see this ...
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Markdown isn't rendering the <sup> tag correctly
Recently I made an edit to this question in Literature SE. The added part is a link inside a tag:
<sup>
The mot was made by mathematician Poincaré in his essay [The future of mathematics](https:...
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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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Community Promotion Ads - 2018 example markdown is wrong?
Looking at Community Promotion Ads - 2018 it states:
[![Tagline to show on mouseover][1]][2]
[1]: http://image-url
[2]: http://clickthrough-url
This is actually incorrect. The format should be:
[!...
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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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Unfiltered raw MarkDown shown in question summary
This question has a picture right at the start of it. This results in the raw Markdown being shown in the question summary (as illustrated). This Markdown needs to be filtered out.
Thinking that I ...
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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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Emails from community at stackexchange use markdown
Markdown does not work in emails, so you should probably not use it in them. The email is still readable and the links work, they're just not at the place where you'd expect them to be.
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Careers table support inconsistent between preview and actual rendering
I just edited my careers page, and I added a table in markdown. I know markdown is only partially supported and I kind of expected it not to work, but the preview rendered it exactly like I wanted, ...
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