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4-space indentation never works
Did you leave an empty line before the code? For example:
Test line
line 1 indented by four spaces
line 2 indented by four spaces
Test line 2
line 3 indented by four spaces
line 4 ...
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How to get the * (asterisk) to show in <kbd> mode if used twice
You can backslash the Markdown characters:
<kbd>Ctrl</kbd>+<kbd>\*</kbd> or <kbd>Alt</kbd>+<kbd>\*</kbd>
gives
Ctrl+* or Alt+*.
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How to use backticks at the beginning and the end of inline code blocks?
As a code block
I'm assuming you mean something like this?
`
blah...code...blah
`
Simply indent the code block using 4 spaces.
As inlined code block
If on the other hand you want them inlined ...
slmMod
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See the source of a post when the edit button is disabled
You don't need to edit to view the source.
Get the post ID (click on share, or look at the question URL, note the first number). For your question, that would be 3559.
Go to <site.name>/posts/&...
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4-space indentation never works
There's another syntax for code blocks which is mentioned in the advanced formatting help. Surround the code by three backticks on a line of their own. The backticks have to be on their own line but ...
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Our site has been migrated to CommonMark
I'll just mention a significant consequence of that here as I was just hit by it:
Apparently, articles that were last edited before the transition are still rendered the old way, so you don't need to ...
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embedding gists from github in stackexchange.com
No. That would be the same as linking, which means that should the gist disappear, the question/answer here becomes useless.
Won't fix.
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Markdown images using html img src
I have a high resolution screenshot from my mobile phone and I wanted to constrain the rendered view to 30% while leaving the image intact in case someone needed the detail.
Then height and width are ...
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4-space indentation never works
Let me have a go
code
yes it works! I left a blank line before it.
So the 'How to Format' should have told us about this!
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Markdown help: escaping intendation in lists for code blocks
Personally, I do indented code blocks in lists using the triple backtick syntax, and then I use Ctrl+K on them to do the indentation:
So, first write the code block this way:
* Some list item ...
KusalanandaMod
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Numbered list followed by code block breaks formatting
You need to indent it with eight spaces instead of four:
Numbered list
Code block
Line 2
Indenting a line right after a list indicated that it's part of that list item. If you make a new, non-...
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Experimentation Sandbox
Will this put everything below this in a <code> tag on the mobile site (and maybe also on the desktop site on some computers / browsers)?
I think it did. (I deleted it because it messed up the ...
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Help to markdown editing
I don't know where you've seen these "wrong" examples. The basic rule is that one is italic and two is bold:
_italic1_ and *italic2* : italic1 and italic2
__bold1__ and **bold2** : bold1 and bold2
...
terdonMod
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4-space indentation never works
The behavior you are seeing is a design feature: in Markdown you need a blank line to signal the and of a paragraph. Spaces or tabs at the beginning of a line are not enough to make it a different ...
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Experimentation Sandbox
Code block formatting test.
code goes
here
Now this:
more
here
From problematic answer:
for example:
ip,time,name,_random
1.1.1.1,2018-08-31 11:12:32,python,65536
1.1.1.1,2018-08-31 11:12:32,...
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