files/en-us/learn/getting_started_with_the_web/html_basics/index.md: Remove extra asterisks

[PythonCoderAS]

Summary

Removes extra asterisks from places they do not belong

Motivation

They are out of place.

Supporting details

#11201

Related issues

Fixes #11201

Metadata

• Adds a new document
• Rewrites (or significantly expands) a document
• Fixes a typo, bug, or other error

[github-actions]

Preview URLs

• https://pr11202.content.dev.mdn.mozit.cloud/en-US/docs/Learn/Getting_started_with_the_web/HTML_basics

Flaws

URL: /en-US/docs/Learn/Getting_started_with_the_web/HTML_basics
Title: HTML basics
on GitHub
Flaw count: 1

• broken_links:
  • Link points to the page it's already on

External URLs

URL: /en-US/docs/Learn/Getting_started_with_the_web/HTML_basics
Title: HTML basics
on GitHub

No new external URLs

(this comment was updated 2021-12-14 17:02:46.298937)

[cw118]

@PythonCoderAS Hello, I believe the intended formatting here is hypertext reference—the translated versions of this page that have yet to be converted to Markdown have the two words wrapped in <em> tags, and I'm guessing the single asterisks were escaped in an attempt to use italics.

Since parts of the words have been "bolded" with two asterisks, it would likely be best to use underscores (_) to achieve an italic-nested bold effect as follows: _**h**ypertext **ref**erence_.

[PythonCoderAS]

@PythonCoderAS Hello, I believe the intended formatting here is hypertext reference—the translated versions of this page that have yet to be converted to Markdown have the two words wrapped in \<em\> tags, and I'm guessing the single asterisks were escaped in an attempt to use italics.

Since parts of the words have been "bolded" with two asterisks, it would likely be best to use underscores (_) to achieve an italic-nested bold effect as follows: _**h**ypertext **ref**erence_.

@cw118 Thanks! Is it possible to see the non-transformed versions? I think that a lot of <em> -> \* errors may have resulted this way. Maybe the transformer can use _ instead of \*?

[cw118]

Is it possible to see the non-transformed versions? I think that a lot of <em> -> \* errors may have resulted this way. Maybe the transformer can use _ instead of \*?

@PythonCoderAS I'm actually not very familiar with the way MDN's markdown conversion works, but I've seen <em>, when it's not within a tag like <strong>, turn into both _ and * (or perhaps one of the two only gets added/modified manually). However, it's mainly when italic and bold text is being nested within one another that errors arise. I've created an issue in the mdn/yari repo about the conversion of nested em and strong tags—if I'm not mistaken, that's where the code for the markdown converter is.

As for seeing the non-transformed versions, since the HTML files are deleted after conversion to markdown, I tend to just change the language of the page I'm viewing. Most language locales still have their files in HTML, so sometimes I look through the source code of a page's translated version(s) in mdn/translated-content to compare formatting, but note that translations take quite a bit of work to maintain and don't always match the English version.

Anyhow, I'm by no means an expert, but I'm sure a solution will be found :)

[Rumyra]

Thanks @PythonCoderAS - this now renders perfectly well 👍