Questions tagged [markdown-preview]
Questions about the live Markdown preview of posts as they're being typed.
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Some MathJax expressions incorrectly do not render in the preview, but do render in the actual post
Some math equations do not render correctly in the editor preview.
Here's an example of one of them:
$$\text{card}(x) = \|x\|_{0} = \lim_{p \to 0} \left( \sum_{k=1}^{n} |x_{k}|^p \right)^{1/p}$$
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Incorrect rendering in all but answer list
If I visit https://android.stackexchange.com/a/205140/311449, the lists are how I expect them to be - correctly indented:
However, that same source code's rendering shall break, should I:
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HTML tables are unusable [duplicate]
I want to modify https://stackoverflow.com/revisions/56857772/2#:~:text=http%3A%2F%2F%20www.%20example,user%20%40%20example.com
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The following **bold** parts of URLs *may* be case-sensitive, ...
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Post formatting is not accurate for numbered lists of code blocks. Is this a bug?
Compare the way this list looks in the post versus the screenshot of the preview:
text:
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{ label: `Baz ${x ? n1 : n2}`, kind: "B", } satisfies B,
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{ label: `Baz ${x ? n1 : n2}` ...
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Automatic URL parser is wrong (discarding character after URL)
When using the part for https://dba.stackexchange.com/q/330357/272354: in a question, the trailing colon is discarded.
IMHO it should be obvious that the colon cannot be part of the URL (link), so it ...
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Markdown preview rendering difference when linking the file protocol
Code:
From the [weakref documentation](file:///usr/share/doc/python3/html/library/weakref.html):
Expected result: link may or may not be active, but the markdown should parse. This works in the ...
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URLs in double quotes are not resolved [duplicate]
There seems to be a bug inasmuch that there is a disparity between the auto-resolving of Stack Exchange URLs within double-quotes contained in posts in normal viewing mode and in edit mode.
Example (...
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Why don’t we see a preview of the bounty message?
I'm wondering why we don't see a preview of the bounty message.
In one of my questions, if the bounty message was in the main post; the second link; i.e., the following would show only the following,...
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MathJax preview renders slowly and improperly
When writing expressions in the body with MathJax on the Mathematics Stack Exchange site, the preview is sometimes immediate, but oftentimes it takes maybe a good five seconds to render. In the latter ...
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Missing a backtick from Markdown table in preview was well rendered, but not server side
Related: https://askubuntu.com/a/1464175/93706
In the table below, 1{print} is missing its closing backtick. The preview handles this well by having it render as plain text instead of code but when ...
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MathJax escape sequences don't work
The equation $x = \{y\}$ is supposed to render like this x = {y} but instead in the preview pane it looks like this x = y. The escape sequences for curly braces, \{ and \}, do not render correctly. ...
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Non-space characters following an SE shortlink aren't shown in preview
Example:
The : isn't shown in the preview.
You can test yourself with the following:
"Failed to upload image; an error occurred on the server" is back: test 1
"Failed to upload image;...
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MathJax processing issue - Strange behavior in the editor of "\:" in a formula
I noticed that in some posts, the code of the equations ends with "\:.", but nor "\:", nor ":" themselves appear in the rendered equation (see, e.g., this answer). ...
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The preview for a question is different from the view of the question
This is not a duplicate of Block quote handling mismatch between preview and post. The questions are somewhat similar in that the preview is incorrectly parsing the Markdown, but from both a ...
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`'%` breaks hyperlinks in Markdown preview
'% breaks hyperlinks in Markdown preview. Example:
The link works once the edit is saved:
Experiment below:
https://example.com/an'%20example
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