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Indented Stack Snippets don’t render well
This Markdown:
- foo
if (Math.random() < 0.5) {
console.log("hello, world!");
} else {
console.log("goodbye, cruel world!");
}
Renders as:
foo
>
> ...
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Stack Snippets console message formatting fails at interpreting a doubled percent sign
Both of the lines below, using the console message formatting syntax, are supposed to print "%" to the console twice, and they indeed do in the native developer consoles of Chromium, Firefox ...
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The code snippet window sometimes doesn't close
The code snippet window sometimes doesn't close. Below is an example of this issue on SO with Chrome + Windows 10 when I was writing a question, which prevented me from continuing to write the ...
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Snippet button missing on Staging Ground question creation
I've been wondering why there is no 'create snippet' button when asking a question on Stack Overflow!
I found this meta post asking where it was 7 months ago and staff mentioned that it was being ...
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Stack Snippet is not supported on mobile devices - time to reconsider it
There have been a couple of cases when I wanted to write an answer on my iPhone and ran into non-working stack snippets editor, only to be greeted with magnificent error: not supported on mobile. Well,...
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Editor in "Ask Question" page has two snippet icons
There are two snippet icons displayed in the question's body Markdown editing tool. Clicking on both icons opens the snippet section.
I am able to reproduce this on Meta Stack Exchange and Stack ...
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Who sniped the snippet?
I am trying to ask a question on Stack Overflow but the code snippet button is missing for some reason.
Expecting this
Currently Available
How can I bring back the code snippet?
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Appearance of HTML and CSS snippet is changing when it is indented
Today I was editing this question to change the formatting of its code into a runnable snippet. Once I configured the snippet, Stack Overflow would not let me submit my question because it thought ...
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Snippets in nested list items break nesting in post preview
Similar to "Why aren't runnable code snippets formatted correctly within lists?" (which appears to be resolved), when a snippet is in an item in a nested markdown list, it breaks the nesting....
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Indenting interactive interpreter invokes interesting interactions [duplicate]
Stack Snippets still attempt to be rendered when indented or within code fences.
This behaviour was first observed "in the wild" on this (now deleted) answer on Stack Overflow and in ...
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A small problem when using "Tidy" to format JS in the "Code Sandbox" if the code uses "dynamic import"
When creating an answer to the question, I drew attention to the incorrect formatting of the JS code via "Tidy" in "Code Snippet" when using "dynamic import" in the code.
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Alignment bug of Run Code Snippet buttons after approving suggested edit
I approved a suggested edit on this post by clicking the edit link directly on the post. After approving the edit it seems the "Run code snippet" buttons are vertically aligned in the diff ...
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Stack Snippet console styles can be overriden [duplicate]
While editing a post I put the code into a runnable Stack Snippet and noticed that the styles affected the console:
console.log('good luck reading this when the console wrapper dimensions are ...
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Is there something wrong with the snippets?
I posted a question on Code Review. It did not meet the standards and was closed. I asked the same question on Stack Overflow.
While the code in Code Review produces error, the code in Stack Overflow ...
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How do I force Stack Snippets to render as a code block?
Usually, posting blocks of code on Stack Exchange websites is very simple:
You can indent everything by 4 spaces.
Both lines are indented by 4 spaces.
or
```
You can start and end the code ...
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If you run a code snippet, a hat still appears (hats are above snippets in the Z-order) [duplicate]
If you run a code snippet, a hat still appears.
Steps to repro:
Go to a question where there is a snippet and where the OP wear a hat
well, if you find that hard, just go here. rowspan not changing ...
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Bug when running code snippet [closed]
I discovered a bug in the code editor. The following code has two videos, which should automatically play if the video is in the viewport and pause if the video is not in the viewport anymore.
This ...
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JavaScript code snippet Tidy function injects a separating space into the null coalesce operator
For JavaScript snippets, the Tidy feature injects a space between the question marks that compose the nullish coalescing operator ??[1].
Example:
Prior to Tidy:
console.log(((a, b) => {
return a ?...
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Code snippet link text conflicts with underline in Firefox
On my browser, the Show code snippet link for the code snippet
alert("This is some example code");
renders as follows:
It looks like the line and the text are in separate elements, allowing ...
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Inline diff view in revision history breaks runnable code snippets
When viewing the inline diff view in the revision history of a post, pressing the "Run code snippet" button tries to concatenate both revisions:
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Ejecutar (Run) button background is the same color of the button text: white
This is related to Submit buttons change color when hovering on non-English Stack Overflow sites, but in this case it's a problem because the button background is the same color as the button text: ...
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I cannot type certain special characters in the snippet editor
When using the snippet editor, I cannot type the following characters:
: (deletes the next word instead)
= (moves cursor forward a word instead)
I assume this is because the snippet editor uses ...
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Snippets can be formatted in monospace
Example answer with bug.
By indenting the snippet generating comments, you can make a pretty odd snippet style, where the button titles are shown in a monospaced font.
let test = "Hello, world!";...
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Why aren't runnable code snippets formatted correctly within lists?
Consider the following code snippet.
console.log("this line is all right");
console.log("but this line is indented");
This should be a part of the same bullet point but it's not.
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Clicking to reload an updated answer removes the code snippet buttons and removes syntax highlighting
If you are looking at an answer with a code snippet in it, and the answerer updates the answer, you see An edit has been made (etc.). If you click that, the answer is refreshed, but the code snippet ...
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Icons in snippet editor don't match link color
On sites with non-blue accent colors, the icons next to the "Tidy" and "Reset" links in the snippet editor stay blue and don't match the accent color. For example, on Code Golf:
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The Snippets console is getting truncated too severely
Plenty of Snippets don't need HTML and just put their results in the console. See an example below.
The problem is that the console only displays the last 50 lines -- which completely borks some ...
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Links overlap on snippets
With certain screen widths, the “Hide results” and “Full page” links on snippets overlap (e.g. here, you need to run the code snippet to repro)
Using a smaller or bigger width makes the page ...
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Getting JS Error while clicking Copy Snippet to answer
To answer this question, I hit "Copy Snippet To Answer" button. But nothing happened. So that I checked my console and found below error.
I did hard refresh and checked for the same, still getting ...
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Options from HTML select inside a Stack Overflow question or answer will be positioned fixed [closed]
As the title already tells: When someone is answering a question or creating a question with a fiddle inside and when this fiddle contains a HTML <select> element, the child <option> ...
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Code snippet has a different behavior on Chrome when running in modal or post
I am using Chrome on a Mac, and noticed that some snippets were not working as expected. The interesting part is that when you edit the snippet (on the modal) they run fine; but when you run the ...
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Increase min-height on SE code snippets to prevent scrollbar from blocking code [duplicate]
When using Stack Exchange/Stack Overflow, anytime there's a one-line code snippet with a horizontal scrollbar, the majority of the code becomes covered.
I am using Chrome v72.0.3626.109.
Looks ...
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Vertical scroll bar overlaps top static bar
In attached image, Vertical scrollbar just overlaps when code snippets is too big and am scrolling up on code snippet area that time vertical scroll will overlap to top static bar.
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Broken view after expanding a snippet
Find a post with Stack Snippet (HTML/CSS/JavaScript) and go for "Expand snippet", for example this one.
I got this strange view on Chrome 70 (Windows 10):
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Can not create Stack Snippet with YouTube API
When writing How to remove event listener on Youtube player?, I tried to create a Stack Snippet but I could not add the YouTube API client, which was needed to display the issue.
The client is on ...
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Snippet CSS content is corrupting the console display
I have encountered a bug in the Stack Overflow snippet interface. I have created a div and wrote some css in the CSS section for the same. I noticed that the div CSS content is affecting the console ...
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Snippet editor for touch devices can be opened if you show perseverance
Opening a code snippet editor via the button from the toolbar cannot be used on touch screen devices like my iPad, i.e. I see the following notice:
But occasionally tapping code snippet button ...
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Console on snippet going behind contents
I was googling for a code and I reached this Stack Overflow page.
Owl Carousel on change not working
I tried running the code in answer and it will log something in console in every slide change.
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Is the behaviour of code snippets correct, when doing a review task?
I was reviewing a post, and it looked to me that it had an obvious error in its code-- but it had a Code Snippet button, so I decided to click it to make sure this obvious error was there. Sure ...
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While undeleting deleted answer, the snippet seems missing
Yesterday I made an answer to this question Why does width and height affect how a flex item is rendered?. I got some downvotes and so I decided to check am I missed something. I temporarily deleted ...
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Code snippet comments in code formatting break the formatting of the post
When special HTML comments used for snippets are present in a post, these comments break the rendering of the post. For example, consider the following markdown code (notice that the whole thing is ...
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Repeating Run Code Snippet row when other answer gets reloaded
In a nutshell, this is the problem:
You have an answer with a code snippet.
There's another answer that just got updated.
You see the "an edit has..." message and click on it.
The moment, the other ...
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Can't run Stack code Snippets on the mobile site
Is it a known issue that stack snippets don't have the "Run code snippet" button underneath on the mobile version of the site? Searching for this yielded nothing, both on MSE and MSO.
I've posted a ...
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New code snippet causes error on submit?
StackOverflow's editor seem to have changed, or to be more precise, the settings for the snippet editor that allow to run code in questions/answers have changed. The snippets are now executed in a ...
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Why is there a script error in all Stack Snippets?
I am not sure whether this has been asked before or not, or if anyone else has this problem. I get this "script error" everytime I execute any script in the code snippet tool of Stack Overflow. I have ...
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Dojo Toolkit (Dijit) example does not work in Stack Snippet
This snippet is adapted from http://dojotoolkit.org/documentation/tutorials/1.10/dojo_data/demo/store-adapter.html.
The snippet works in FireFox, but Chrome gives a browser error:
Uncaught ...
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Snack snippets sandbox makes Chrome web browser unresponsive
The sandbox linked to in the [snack-snippets] tag wiki makes my browser sluggish/unresponsive. My CPU usage jumps to 25%, so I think there are either too many snippets, or some of them require too ...
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Code snippet editor is not loading in Chrome!
I don't know whether this is a bug or security issue with chrome. But I'm getting a screen like this when I click on the snippet button. Any help would be helpful.
Chrome Console
This is what I'm ...
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Typo in Stack Snippets: "Javascript" should be "JavaScript"
That's not a pluralization bug, so I shouldn't expect Jeff coming to my house with a giant "S", right?
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Snippet console.log() return different value than browser console
Not sure why the console.log() in my snippet return different value of the browser developer console :
You could see that it return an empty array [] instead of filled one like console below.
The ...
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