The markdown tag has no wiki summary.
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When editing this post, the “preview” displays the image correctly. When viewing the question, the image is not displayed
Have a look at this answer.
I see the text
![Phone Types on Outlook.com][2]
rather than the image he is trying to display. But when I clicked "Edit" to fix his formatting, I found that the image ...
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How can I quote a numbered list in markdown?
I came across a question asking for comment on a list of items. The question was something like this:
Are the following statements true?
The sky is blue
The earth is round
Aliens built ...
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Formatting Goodies
Recently I read this meta question, which explains how to embed a in your text.
What tips and tricks do you use to make your questions and answers pleasing to the eye?
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Can we support internal “chrome://” URLs?
Is it possible that we could support the internal chrome:// URLs used by Google Chrome and Chromium? There are many questions where one has to access an internal page used by Chrome to solve the ...
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Adding a table/grid control to the markdown options
I would like to suggest that a table/grid control be added to the markdown options, as it pains me to see people trying to show a sample portion of an excel document, and having it come out as a line ...
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How to add a code block following a numbered or ordered list [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Can not use code tag
Just a little quirk I noticed when using the Editor.
This is bad:
This is good:
Alternatively, you have to insert a horizontal rule (---) ...
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Markdown formatting of tag wiki excerpts in /review
Tag wiki excerpts are plain text. The description when editing tag wikis states:
The tag wiki excerpt is a brief plain text introduction to the topic that the tag represents. It is shown at the ...
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Can I embed a YouTube video in a question or answer?
Over on gaming.stackexchange.com I often see YouTube videos embedded in questions and answers. Here is an example.
I see in the source that there is not special markup, just the youtube.com url alone ...
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The Markdown editing help doesn't include help for creating buttons
When asking questions, and one isn't familiar with Markdown, adding a button such as this may be very difficult and frustrating.
I think many users's answers and questions involve solutions that ...
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Are pictures in comments possible?
I added a comment to a question, and instead of an image popping up, this did:
![http://i.imgur.com/DXSVh.png][1]
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Horizontal tabs in code blocks are a little broken
As the title says. Tabs are not 8 spaces from the beginning of the code block, but rather 8 spaces from the beginning of the line, making them 4 spaces short.
Current display:
$ lsb_release -a
LSB ...
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Problem with numbering in Markdown
When using a numbered list that's interrupted by a quote for each item, it's being rendered correctly in the edit/preview screen, but ends up 'resetting' each item in the final version.
In edit mode:
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Is it possible to control the scrollbox height for pre blocks?
Is there a way to control the height for <pre> blocks? (Edit: I have in mind further limiting beyond the default limit.) For superuser, I think this would be a useful feature (and possibly for ...
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Markdown discrepancy between live preview and finished posts
(I'm not sure I'm right on this meta site, but since there's a bug tag...)
The following is a link to a web page with a trailing ) in its URL:
test
I know, the parentheses can be escaped, but ...
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what ways can I make one new line in a post?
what ways can I make one new line in a post?
And what is the sense in the fact that pushing enter and starting a new line, doesn't create a new line when the question or I guess answer is submitted?
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How do I view the markdown source for a post?
I was trying to figure out how users markdown a button but I do not see a "view source" button. I could of sworn I've been able to see the source of a post before... somehow. Am I bugging out?
Maybe ...
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What kind of syntax is used to specify a button?
I see people use it but I do not see it listed in the markdown help nor in the toolbar.
Looks like this:
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More comprehensive documentation of markdown available for comment boxes
Is there a comprehensive list of what markdown elements can be used in comment boxes? I only recently discovered that the shorter format for links actually works (whereas the longer format doesn't), ...
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Can not use code tag
With the following question, http://superuser.com/questions/179135/interesting-windows-7-boot-issue-involving-raid-and-an-ssd, I'm not able to remove the quote block in which the code block is ...
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Multiple Link issue in a Superuser question
There seems to be an issue in multiple links some how.
I have 2 links in the question below
http://superuser.com/questions/2389/what-is-wolfram-alpha-good-for/2705#2705
The 2nd link is different in ...
