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For questions about the Markdown editing help page, which lists the elements of Markdown syntax which can be used to format posts on Stack Exchange.

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As I pointed out in October 2017, Spoilers are inaccessible to keyboard-only users. That question has two answers suggesting more accessible alternatives, including one that relies on native HTML ...
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The Markdown editing help page currently leads with this code example: printf("%d\n", 42); /* What was the question again? */ (This quote excludes the four highlighted spaces at the start ...
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When editing a post (old or new editor likewise), there is a button to get formatting tips. The page about tables has the word "markdown" written in lower case: The same issue also appears ...
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I think the description of "blockquote" https://cs.stackexchange.com/editing-help#simple-blockquotes is confusing. It doesn't explain what blockquote should be used for and instead says You ...
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There are two sections, "Alignment" and "Syntax details", under the "Tables" section on the Markdown Editing Help page. It has the below clickable links: https://meta....
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I picked this up on Law SE but it seems to be SE-wide: There seems to be something missing between with and the comma in the address text written under the two entries for Monospace Spans: If your ...
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There's an untranslatable sentence in formatting tips while asking a new question: Similar block has translation for post edit editor: Could this sentence please be added for translation DB?
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I'm pretty ashamed to admit how often I mix up the hyperlink markdown when writing a comment, but I see this error often enough throughout the network that I wonder if a small fix could help alleviate ...
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Question is pretty straight forward-- how do I make an edit that is actually helpful? How do I know when a post should be edited?
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In editing help page, in "Images" section there are few examples with the URL. All the URLs are with the http:// only. When tried those example in the editor we received the "All image ...
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There is an extra space in formatting tips for the text editor: The text inserted as is produces the following: Markdown works * fine* in here. But we're expecting italic style for "fine" ...
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The example in Advanced Links looks: Here's a <span class="bg-black-200">[poorly-named link](http://www.google.com/ "Google")</span>. Never write "[click here][^2]&...
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The Markdown Editing Help page shows this for the Basic Links: There are three ways to write links. Each is easier to read than the last: [Google](http://www.google.com/)Here's an inline link to . [...
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In the Markdown help I see: Is that what the help is supposed to say and look like? Because it doesn't make sense to me. As animuson points out in a comment, all of the highlighted example text is ...
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Related to: How can I format as keyboard keys? The markdown editing help page, here for example: https://superuser.com/editing-help , does not include this example.
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