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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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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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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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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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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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Markdown in chat fails sometimes for single line messages too
I found many questions similar to chat formatting issues but unfortunately none of them addresses my issue related to chat formatting and I am making it clear that I am not talking about multiline ...
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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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Bug with rendering <code>`TEST`</code>?
There seems to be a bug with rendering the following snippet.
<code>`TEST`</code>
It is shown as TEST and should be visible with quotes.
Suprisingly the following works fine
<code&...
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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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4 or more spaces always creates a horizontal text box without wrapping
If I type a paragraph into the editor and use four or more spaces to start it (a styling many people use in normal writing - i.e. indenting the first line of a paragraph), then the entire paragraph is ...
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URL containing opening without closing bracket doesn't work inline
If an URL contains only an opening bracket ((), but no closed bracket ()) and you try to link to it inline ([like this](http://www.example.org/opening_bracket:_()), the markdown doesn't work. The ...
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Why doesn't Markdown render links with [foo](bar) syntax if bar doesn't start with a protocol (http, https, etc.)?
On EL&U Meta, I wrote a comment:
You could ask on Writers, but I don't think you necessarily need to ask on StackExchange at all. This is covered by the general references on rhetorical devices....
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Plain URL stops hyperlinking at marking characters
When posting an answer, I wrote the following text
Remove that lowercase "m" in https://i.sstatic.net/XXXXX*m*.png
^ ^
And it ended up as
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Tag and link syntax doesn't seem to like each other, they want to be more separated! [duplicate]
This produce a tag, some text and a link:
sometag [some link]1
[tag:sometag] [some link][1]
Adding an space produce a tag and a link
sometag some link
[tag:sometag] [some link][1]
There's one ...
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Possible Markdown escaping error on iOS
Glancing at an old answer of mine, I noticed that in one of the two code blocks, \\ is converted to \ and the following line break is ignored. In the other, the \\ is not immediately followed by a ...
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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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Bug in formatting? Lists and Code [duplicate]
On this question, I tried to format code, (indented 4 spaces) followed by a Unordered List to document the params, then another line of code, and more documentation.
The second line of code will not ...
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URL within angled brackets is disappearing from post
I was trying to use angled brackets to create a link inside my post, but it is disappearing from the post when rendered.
For example, the following:
This is Sparta! <example.org>
produces:
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Fix the duplicated markup for embedded images
Some time ago (I want to say around the time that new profiles were rolled out on Stack Overflow), I noticed a bug appeared in the post editor, and it has persisted to this day.
When you want to add ...
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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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backslashdot (\.) appears as dot (.)
I was writing the the code below with the b and pre tags for my answer to nginx location deny by file extension syntax:
location ~* .(bak|zip)$|/. {
deny all;
}
Which appears different with <...
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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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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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Links in <angle-brackets> don't show up
Links in <> do not appear in questions.
Here is an example:
<meta.stackexchange.com> is above. It is invisible.
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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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Strong, bold, and backtick not working when trying to style a text piece [duplicate]
Please, take a look at this post in SO. I've tried to make some part of the text bold to make the change noticeable. But it doesn't make it bold, instead it just adds leading and trailing **. Here, in ...
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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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"Emphasis" markdown bug with Japanese characters in Japanese Stack Overflow
I assume this has something to do with the recent change to how Markdown works.
I noticed that Japanese SO exists from this chat-bot message, and with some Japanese language skill that I have, was ...
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markdown toolbar view hides when press left arrows icon
When I press left arrows on additional keyboard view hides and paintbrush icon become visible
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Is there a bug when using code highlighting with URL's? [duplicate]
I just recognized that when I use grave accents (`) to highlight code and insert a URL into this, then the URL does somehow not getting resolved. Using <code> works.
The output is something ...
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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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Bug in submitting post with numeric ordering [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Code block is not properly formatted when placed immediately after a list item
I tried the following post:
My application allows the user to take a picture in the camera/or
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Markdown silently renumbers my <ol> like enumeration-
When a paragraph starts with a decimal digit followed by a dot, the value of that number is silently renumbered to whatever markup believes it should be without any warnings. I would expect that the ...
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Add link to windows 8 store app [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Links with URIs of schemes other than http/https are broken
I can't add link to windows store app, since MS is using the ms-windows-store: protocol. For example this link ...
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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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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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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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