Questions tagged [code-formatting]
For questions about making code appear correctly in questions, answers and comments.
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Erroneous “Your post appears to contain code that is not properly formatted as code” error
I spent more than an hour trying to fix the formatting of the question below such that the Mathematica and Wolfram Language forum would accept it. I had no success, even though I am aware of threads ...
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Quote button shouldn't reformat code in triple-backticks
I've seen Blockquote rewrap destroys code, but that question (and answer) are about the situation where a user mistakenly uses the quote button instead of the code button.
I instead want to use both. ...
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Some lines of code block are bold when the question has at least two language tags
We've found this problem in this question on Stack Overflow in Portuguese, but I've also tested in other sites (English and Spanish SO's), and it happened there as well.
In the aforementioned ...
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I need help and Stack Overflow is not letting me post my code. Says “Your post appears to contain code that is not properly formatted as code.”
I am trying to learn React and there's a concept that I'm feeling pretty stuck on. I was hoping someone could help me and I've been trying to put effort into making a question post detailing my ...
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Triple backticks code formatting doesn't showup in the suggested-edits queue on side-by-side mode
I just noticed that answers (I don't know about the questions), that used triple backticks codes in the body, don't show up in the suggested-edits review queue on side-by-side mode. Instead it shows ...
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Prefer code fences or indenting? [duplicate]
Personally, code fences are cleaner (less whitespace) and are parsed more quickly due to the ability to hint at the language via cpp,lang-none,js, etc.
Other than requiring indenting to use code in ...
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Why does copying a code block line contain a trailing newline?
Using macOS and Chrome, triple clicking a line to select and copy in a code block results in a trailing newline. When pasting a command into a shell, this results in the cursor being placed on a line ...
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Revisions list Code Block stretches screen
bug
See the revision histories here:
https://stackoverflow.com/posts/46344443/revisions
https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/posts/383658/revisions
The long code blocks page-stretch, as opposed to ...
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Incorrect preview of fenced code block within an ordered list
The preview for a fenced code block within an ordered list:
This is the actual result after posting:
The fenced code block turned into inline code! The preview is wrong.
1.
scheme (doc id: 1 title: &...
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How to disable syntax highlighting in Markdown fenced code blocks [duplicate]
For indented code blocks, adding <!-- language: lang-none --> disables syntax highlighting. What about for fenced code blocks? Can I use lang-none or none in fenced code blocks too?
Which of the ...
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Please have same background color for indented code and inline code
In this answer I included both indented code, and an inline codeblock. (Yes you may blame me for abusing code make-up for something that isn't technically code)
They both have a different shade of ...
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Option to format and view C and C++ code with ClangFormat [closed]
I want an option to render blocks of code found in questions and answers, with ClangFormat, so I can read the C++ and C code in the style I deem appropriate.
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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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On some sites, the closing fence is visible if post ends immediately after a code block that has an empty line
Example here:
The issue goes away if a trailing line break is added.
A minimal reproduction of the bug:
Ask on Code Golf
Enter "```\ncode\n\nmore\n```" so the input field looks like:```
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How can I automatically edit all my answers and questions so that no quotes are broken down?
The CommonMark migration messed up the formatting of many of my posts. Specifically, one common issue is that my quotes are now broken down, e.g.:
instead of
Screenshots taken from https://stats....
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Markdown renderer changes indentation inside fenced code blocks
On some (but not all!) sites, code fenced blocks (but not indented code blocks!) are indented incorrectly. The following Markdown input:
```
for arg; do
if [[ $arg ]]; then
echo "$...
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Rendering bug with backslash and dollar sign on MathJax-enabled sites
Typing
`\$`
on a MathJax-enabled site renders
\\\$
instead of the expected
\$
On the preview, the rendering is also wrong, but it only renders \\$, as can be seen in the following screenshot:
This ...
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Erroneous “Your post appears to contain code that is not properly formatted as code”?
I just read Stack Overflow won't let me post code, I don't have proper "formatting"? because I get the same error message. However, all code etc is marked as code in my post, see the ...
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Is it possible to copy formatted text from Stack Overflow posts/answers, i.e. colors, fonts, etc.?
I'm attempting to copy and then paste code examples from existing Stack Overflow posts into personal documentation which I often end up using Word to paste into. I find that I often am having to copy ...
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Stop guessing/auto-detecting a language when you KNOW it will be incorrect
The problem: SE asks Highlight.js to auto-detect the language when it knows there is no optimal/correct choice for us to make - resulting in very poor outcomes.
Disclaimer: I say this as the current ...
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How to fix, or document for users: Escaped backtick rendering, in question/answer or comment [duplicate]
Noting this duplication of topic, I hope this question can also address, what else might be easily done?
This is a bug, or should be added to editing notes.
Congratulations you discovered meta._....
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Add syntax highlighting support for Dockerfiles
Highlight.js supports syntax highlighting Dockerfiles, but support is not present on Stack Exchange’s version of highlight.js. Please consider adding support for this.
Example question on Stack ...
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Add syntax highlighting support for Nim
Highlight.js supports syntax highlighting for Nim here. Questions on Stack Overflow for [nim-lang] currently have no highlighting support, and this would be a valued feature for users.
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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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Add syntax highlighting support for nginxconf
Highlight.js supports syntax highlighting for nginx configuration files, but support is not present on Stack Exchange’s version of highlight.js. Please consider adding support for this.
Example ...
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Syntax highlighting language request: Python REPL
Highlight.js treats Python REPL (the Python interpreter in interactive mode) as its own language separate from Python—it uses the class names python-repl and pycon. I checked Stack Exchange's ...
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What happened to Groovy syntax highlighting?
On Stack Overflow I have answered many questions about Spock and Geb, two Groovy test frameworks. For years, I have used <!-- language: lang-groovy --> in combination with indentation by four ...
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Did the automated CommonMark migration mess up the formatting of this answer?
I suspect the automated CommonMark migration messed up the formatting of this answer.
Before the migration to CommonMark: https://web.archive.org/web/20200515072655/https://unix.stackexchange.com/...
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Goodbye, Prettify. Hello highlight.js! Swapping out our Syntax Highlighter
Update 2020-09-24
This is now live network-wide.
Update
This is now live on Meta Stack Exchange and Meta Stack Overflow. Any bugs and feedback can be posted here as an answer.
I’m Ben and I’m a dev ...
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Please remove the horizontal whitespace in the left part of code blocks
With the new post formatting there's extra horizontal whitespace at the left of code blocks (not to be confused with the increased line height).
Before the new formatting:
Now (red circle shows the ...
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Unable to differentiate between code and hyperlinks with code formatting on mobile site
This is a follow up of my earlier question Hyperlinks in code formatting no longer follows site color.
The links in code formatting on mobile site aren't underlined which worsens the above situation ...
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Hyperlinks in code formatting no longer follows site color
Earlier code used to follow site colors, for example,
Orange on Ask Ubuntu[Click on image to open corresponding cached page/post]
:
and blue on Unix & Linux
But now they no longer follow site ...
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Request for a possibility to adjust the spacing between lines
Update: The line-height in code blocks is almost back to what it was before (it was 1.3 but is now 1.30769231) and the spacing between lines in regular text is now at 1.5 (it was 1.3 before the change)...
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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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Should Ctrl+K in the editor use the code fences instead of indentation?
Now that the Stack Exchange network has switched to CommonMark, some features appear to be deprecated. In particular, comment-style language hints may eventually stop working. So instead of using 4-...
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How to “prettify” my coments [duplicate]
How can I format my comments? For example, I've pasted a few lines of code (with new lines, spaces etc.) but it looks very ugly.
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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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Does <Shift> + <Enter> create lists automatically if the line starts with a dash or a bullet?
I just noticed that if you have some text and you add a dash in front of the first character, then when you hit Shift + Enter before any character in the text, then it gets rendered as a list.
This ...
asked Jul 2 '20 at 11:02
fedorqui 'SO stop harming'
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Extra newline risks running unwanted commands [closed]
Triple-clicking on a code block like the ones here highlight the line with an additional newline at the end. When the user copies and pastes it into the terminal the extra newline results in the ...
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Provide a proper way to indicate error messages that is visually distinct from quotes and actual code
Error messages are a fairly common thing to mention, in both questions and answers, across many Stack Exchange communities. I think it would be valuable to have a markdown syntax to denote error ...
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Code formatting error message dispenses no-longer-true advice, and doesn't indicate what to do in case of false positives
On four sites in the network, there is a code formatting filter that checks for users pasting in code but not formatting it correctly. When it is triggered, it says the following:
Your post appears ...
asked Jun 19 '20 at 3:31
Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog
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How to avoid the 'not properly formatted as code' alert
I've been trying for many hours to post a question in Mathematica Stack Exchange and I always get the following warning
I've done the indentation but did not work (though in the preview looks ...
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Appearance of numbers for an ordered list element starting with a code block
These:
1. ```
foo
bar
baz
bad
```
2. foo
bar
baz
bad
Render as:
foo
bar
baz
bad
foo
bar
baz
bad
Screenshot:
I am pretty sure the list numbers were aligned ...
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Why does this post show ``` at the end of a code block?
Here is a post on Game Development Stack Exchange which uses the newish fenced code blocks, i.e. the ones starting and finishing with a triple backquote:
```
[insert code here]
```
As you can see, ...
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Answer comment cells need text formatting
I noticed certain keywords for text formatting are ignored in the app, e.g. code tags
See attached image for reference.
App Version: 1.6.6.2
Device: iPhone 7 Plus
OS Version: Version 13.3.1 (Build ...
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How to write a ` symbol inside a code block [duplicate]
How can I write this symbol: ` inside a code block in just one line?
As the code blocks are defined by: ```, I am not able to write one of these inside the code block.
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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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How can I explicitly show the return value of a code snippet/sample
Is there an commonly accepted way (best practice if you wish) to show the return value of example code in markdown?
One solution is to add a comment at the end of the function, but I am concerned ...
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Cannot post my question because of code formatting [closed]
I tried to post a question on the Mathematica forum, I spend a hour writting it correctly and I have the following error when I want to submit it : "Your post appears to contain code that is not ...
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How to switch off syntax highlight in cited code? [duplicate]
Suppose some code snippet that appears to be some specific syntax like C in this case, and I want to format it like plain text:
```
#include <code>
```
On stackexchange, this will be rendered ...
