Questions tagged [markdown]
The markdown tag has no usage guidance.
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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 that'...
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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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Can not use code tag
With the following question, 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 embedded. Without making it a quote, the code ...
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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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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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Weird behavior with tag syntax on Meta
There's some squirrely behavior going on when using the [tag:tag] syntax for linking tags on Meta.
In Chrome (29.0.1547.76 m, Windows 7), when written in one continuous line in Markdown, tags ...
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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 top ...
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