Questions tagged [stack-snippets]
Stack Snippets are runnable inline code samples. Currently HTML, CSS, and JavaScript are supported. Use this tag for bug reports, feature requests, and discussions explicitly relevant to these snippets and their underlying technologies.
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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 Snippets on Safari is really bad at throwing errors
If you run any script that contains a error in Stack Snippets, on Safari you're greeted with a generous "script error":
It does work correctly, however, in Chrome:
Could you please teach ...
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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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Add syntax highlighting support for Solidity
Recently, I have been active a lot on the Ethereum site. It got a recent design overhaul which shows that some progression is happening. Unfortunately, one of the main issues is that the Solidity code ...
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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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Bump outdated React version code snippet
The Stack Snippet React version is outdated to such an extent that using a CDN link has become mandatory.
Stack Snippets provide React 16.6.3 as highest version.
However;
React 16.6 is a very old ...
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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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Quicker copying of code examples [duplicate]
There are some code snippets in answers that I want to take, but it is slightly inconvenient to select the whole thing. Could there be a button added next to every snippet that lets you copy the whole ...
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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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Can I reuse and republish code snippets from Stack Exchange sites under a new license?
I want to start a project, Scheme Cookbook, with a better license because an old cookbook, that is no longer available online, was licensed under LGPL, which requires the inclusion of the license with ...
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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 to offer additional libraries based on tags
The code snippet comes with a preselection of popular JavaScript libraries but it could extend its offering based on tags.
For example in this case it could offer to load the Ramda library:
I also ...
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Snippet Tidy breaks Optional Chaining
The Tidy button is adding spaces before and after any question mark that is part of an optional chaining operator (?.). This breaks optional chaining. It appears to be recognizing question marks as ...
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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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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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Can you make it possible to embed and run code snippets other than JavaScript/HTML/CSS?
This would really be great.
I saw people posting code that doesn't run because of syntax errors.
I told them that there are errors in the code but they didn't believe me.
I had to explain exactly ...
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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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Have "Run Code Snippet" before the code
Suggestion to move the "Run Code Snippet" section of a JavaScript/HTML/CSS snippet before the code in Stack Overflow. The reason I think this will be preferable, is because if the result does not ...
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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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Improved support for React in the code snippet editor?
Overview of Feedback
Supported React Versions
Development vs. Production
Auto-enable Use BabelJS / ES2015
Insert React boilerplate
React Version
Currently, the newest version of React available in ...
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Inline Code Editor Unusable in Chrome
From what I've read, this is the proper place for this thing. I first thought tweeting you would get an answer, but I guess not.
On Stack Overflow, when you answer/ask a question, you have the option ...
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How to find answers which use code snippets?
How can I find a list of answers which use code snippets?
If I want to find answers having a code block for a specific tag, I can find it with the following search query:
code:true is:a [C#]
Is ...
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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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Why are code snippets unavailable on profiles?
I have a profile. The picture contains a unicorn, and it talks of unicorns, but when I try to insert a snippet of code about unicorns:
There is no snippet button:
I also tried to manually add ...
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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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Allow the stack snippets console to be maximized
Consider the following stack snippet:
// A Tree(a) is one of:
// - null
// - tree(a, Tree(a), Tree(a))
const tree = (value, left, right) => ({ value, left, right });
const buildTree =...
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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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Edits to a post to provide a snippet, but the snippet doesn't work
I found an edit to a post of mine on the 4th Feb this year.
To be honest, there wasn't anything wrong with the post (other than a cheeky response/salutation, which I've now removed), but the user ...
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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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Why don't code snippets work in Tag Wikis?
I noticed code snippets don't work in tag wikis. E.g. https://stackoverflow.com/tags/css/info
My reasoning for asking:
In most front end tags there will be examples of the relevant code.
Snippets ...
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How can I provide a utility on sites without Stack Snippets in an appropriate manner?
I just wrote this answer and in the last paragraph I decided to create a small utility as part of the answer. The utility is needed for the process. After submitting, I found that Android Enthusiasts ...
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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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