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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Add a console to Stack Snippets
Currently, to see console.log() entries from StackSnippets, you need to open your browser console, and make sure it's recording from frames. Things could be a lot simpler if you would add a console to ...
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On what sites are Stack Snippets enabled?
Stack Snippets is now a feature on some Stack Exchange sites. On what sites is this feature enabled? Where is it being discussed? And where has it actively been decided not to implement the feature? ...
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Stack Snippets Upgrade: Virtual Console
It's been a long time since we worked on Stack Snippets. I'm sorry. It's mostly because I created it, then I got promoted to management, and now I don't code much anymore and nobody else has time to ...
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Stack Snippets Sandbox: Try It Out Here! [duplicate]
This post is dedicated to testing out the newly announced Stack Snippets feature. Feel free to answer with your own Stack Snippets!
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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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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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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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How do I select which lines of code to show and which lines to hide?
Sometimes only 10 lines of 100 are relevant to the question/answer, the other 90 are setup.
Is there a way to hide 90 those in lines in the answer?
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Do Stack Exchange sites allow to include copyright/license in code snippets?
Suppose we see an answer with a code snippet like this:
// Copyright (c) 2017, <some guy's name and email>
//
// Permission to use, copy, modify, and/or distribute this software for any
// ...
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Stacksnippets has the incorrect SSL certificate :(
As discussed here, was prompted to post it as a brand new question, so here it is :-).
Earlier today there was an issue with Stack Snippets, caused by the move to Denver. That issue was fixed, but ...
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Allow hiding walls of text somehow
Sometimes there are questions which could benefit from additional information in an unobstrusive way. Example:
A question about a bug in an MCVE with sample data to use. It might be nice to allow ...
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Can I call out different parts of a snippet
I often format answers something like
Do this
var a = b * c;
Then do this
log("the answer is " + a);
Is it possible to pull those lines separately out of a snippet of say 10 lines to include in ...
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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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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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Browser back leaves page after going fullscreen in stack snippet
Opening a Stack Snippet in full screen should use history.pushState() to add an entry to the browser history stack. Clicking back will then close the snippet rather than leave the page completely.
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Copy-paste from question to snippet
When I'm editing a stack snippet, I often want to copy code from the original question into the snippet. But while the snippet editor is on display, there's no way to access the question, other than ...
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After the move to Denver Stacksnippets.net is offline
After the move of all services to Denver it was tweeted that there was some performance degradation. Initial reports showed that at least chat search seemded to be the victim of that.
I would like to ...
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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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How is my browser protected from XSS in Stack Snippets?
Firefox 32.0.2 with NoScript and AdBlockEdge.
Steps I have done to enable Stack Snippets:
Allowed scripts from http?://stacksnippets.net
In NoScript settings, went to XSS tab and added exceptions ...
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Deploy updated snippet script and implement a UI for the Stack Snippet console options
Back in May 2016 @canon implemented several useful options in the Stack Snippets console script (there's a demo here). Please
Deploy the updated script so those options can be used (currently, only ...
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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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Snippets editor won't insert and close on SO
This just started: I went to add a snippet to an answer on SO, typed it in, clicked the Insert button, and...nothing. No error in the console, but nothing inserted in the question. Earlier today they ...
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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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Are Stack Snippets a good enough reason to increase the 30k post limit?
On all public Stack Exchange sites, questions and answers cannot be longer than 30,000 characters. One clear benefit to this limit is that users won't attempt to post tens of thousands of characters ...
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How to make use of the "Stack Snippets" more intuitive to new users?
I noticed that some users are using the Stack Snippets for ruby, vb, java, php and other "things", even though implicit in the text fields the words html, css and javascript.
I suggested:
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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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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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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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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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Distinguish languages when displaying stack snippets
I just integrated my first snippet on an existing post, nice work.
I put it on this post: https://stackoverflow.com/a/19932511/731138
Code appears without language distinction, with a small space as ...
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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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ERROR(1): User denied Geolocation
While I was researching in order to answer a question on Stack Oveflow en español, I decided to try the code on https://developer.mozilla.org/docs/Web/API/Geolocation/getCurrentPosition1.
But I got ...
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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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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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The console should not display inherited properties
Currently, when you log an object to the virtual console, it shows all enumerable properties, both own and inherited.
I think the inherited ones should be filtered out. Otherwise, the result can be ...
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Stack Snippet editor doesn't close with the background fade
While I was answering a question on Stack Overflow I wanted to insert a snippet... but then I changed my mind and pressed on the grayed out space near the snippet window (without releasing the mouse, ...
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Clicking back button after entering full screen [duplicate]
I'm clicking Run code snipped, then Full page and then the back button in my browser. And now I get a white blank page with only Close button.
Expected results: the full screen should close and the ...
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