Questions tagged [formatting]
For questions about the formatting used by Stack Exchange, including bug reports about problems with formatting and support questions about how to use the formatting
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Link fails to render properly when rejecting an accepted edit
I think a screenshot best conveys the bug:
As you can see, the link HTML in the drop down does not properly render:
This edit was already approved - please visit <a href="/questions/246460/...
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What would be the preferred way to show data in spreadsheet cells?
Which would be the preferred format for answers involving data in spreadsheets, a table or a picture? Below is an example based on one of my answers.
Table
A
B
1
8
10
2
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10
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22
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7
1
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Custom Fonts User Script: Revert or Improve the Font Updates
Recently, Stack Exchange decided to switch to system fonts. For those of you who prefered the old appearance, or would like a different font to appear in code blocks or across the site as a whole, ...
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`\[` in code triggers LateX in preview
When the code contains the characters \[, the preview shows everything else as LateX even though it is inside the `` section. This is how the preview looks like:
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How should we edit questions which have non-expiring bounties attached to them?
Just like we have a format for answering code golf, cracking cops and robbers, and posting most challenges, I am curious as to what (if any) format we should have for questions that have bounties with ...
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Does Code Golf support embedded YouTube videos?
Over on Meta Stack Exchange, SQB asked Which sites have YouTube embedding on?
Searching on Meta Code Golf, I was able to find an announcement post for embedded SoundCloud audio files, but found no ...
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Is there a new consensus on answer headers?
When answering question before I always used to use the "Heading" option present on the formatting box. This produces the following markdown:
## Heading ##
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Change U+200B and U+200C to something else?
When I was commenting on this post by @GregMartin, I realized U+200B and U+200C characters had been inserted in my code, making it non-functional.
This meta SE post states that those characters are ...
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Why isn't there default syntax highlighting for code?
I was going through Code Golf, and I noticed that there is no default Google code prettify like there is on Stack Overflow.
I recently updated one of my submissions to be syntax highlighted. I think ...
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Is this a bug in codeblock indention?
https://codegolf.stackexchange.com/a/66029/31033
Is this a bug or am I using a feature I'm not aware of?
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What input forms are 'reasonable'?
It's very common for a question to leave the input format unspecified and simply let the golfer choose a 'reasonable' input format. I'd say this is a bit vague, and we should decide what can be ...
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Code sample strangely indented? [duplicate]
When viewing this answer the shell transcript seems to be misindented, but when I edit the source it seems fine?
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Code in Spoiler broken (again?)
This one looks pretty funny actually:
Found in this answer.
This is in Chrome 38 on Windows 8.
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Spoiler code and text doesn't appear at the same time
Code and text don't appear at the same time.
It's a bit odd, and Code Golf has a better reason to use code in spoiler text than any site on the SE network :)
EDIT: It appears this is not the first ...
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Subscript and superscript in comments fail
It would be nice to make subscript and superscript work in comments.
Here, these work :
*n*<sub>0</sub><sup>2</sup> → n02
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Consensus for formatting of "language and score line"
Most answers look somewhat like this:
Language, score
text
code
text
But some top lines look like this:
Language score
Markdown:
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