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How about Edit: Also, to add to this, maybe extend this behaviour to other parts such as headers in block quotes? I like to use headers because of their larger font size, but right now are they not included in this. |
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@RahulVerma989 known issue |
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Okay, 😕 and thanks for the quick reply 🙂. |
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did you figure it out? |
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@dipree can you please update the summary to mention that |
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Just use a 2x1 table in wiki pages:
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Thanks for this! Any way to customize the text? It would be very useful for non-English documents. |
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great |
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I don't agree with using emojis instead of text as other suggest. I'd rather not have to go to google every time I want to type this if my device does not have a software emoji keyboard |
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@Wazbat Since this is GFM, emoji shortcodes like |
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Agreed strongly, from China. |
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@dipree said:
This is an extremely bad idea. This isn't about client rendering. This is about forcing all authors of markdown on this platform to use English (and eventually all platforms, as whatever GFM implements will be adopted elsewhere). The feature is English-only, even if you translate on clients for readers. PLEASE KILL THIS FEATURE. |
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This is amazing 🔥 . This is now getting more features similar to AsciiDocs and AsciiDoctor 🎉 |
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great |
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Except that AsciiDoc has had native admonitions since forever (in the standard, not a GitHub-flavored AsciiDoc fork) but GitHub has never supported styling them at all. |
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Same with reStructuredText, it has extensive support for admonitions both specific and generic ( |
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It turns out you can use this new admonitions hack in reStructuredText as well by just using the 4-space block quote syntax. And you can even indent it using the #. List item
.. code:: bash
Do something
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**Warning**
**NB:** Something to be aware of
Still, I don't understand why GitHub still refuses to allow these with the built-in admonition directives in these languages. |
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Would love to see more callouts too for different use-cases. These 5 below might be good to start with! I'm not sure if this is only for documentation, but I would use it in general issues and other places supporting markdown. I would especially like to see one that is red in terms of "caution". That might be especially useful with enforcing a code of conduct when you've already provided a warning and would be generally helpful with RFCs(request for comments) about any major signs of caution. |
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👍🏻 |
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@vassudanagunta AsciiDoctor supports locales for the admonition labels https://github.com/asciidoctor/asciidoctor/tree/main/data/locale as well as icons https://docs.asciidoctor.org/asciidoc/latest/blocks/admonitions/#enable-admonition-icons |
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@toastal From your link it seems AsciiDoctor only supports icons in the HTML rendering, not in the source plain text. |
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I don't know that you’d want icons in your plaintext as it could be ambiguous at times. Also given how many open bugs there are for CLI tools to remove the emoji from the terminal (it really does look out of place), maybe plaintext is the place to keep emojis out. 🤷 But maybe it could work …and has the advantage of being (somewhat) language agnostic. Some symbols like stop signs are more universal. |
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AsciiDoc รองรับชื่อภาษาไทย แต่ต้อง compile ใน terminal |
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Clever backwards compatible syntax 👍 what about changing the colour of the block quote line to blue / yellow? if you wanted to go further, you could add a background colour as well that’s a lighter shade of the corresponding colour |
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😑 |
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You say “backwards-compatible syntax”; I say “spec-breaking & semantic-breaking syntax” |
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How about Check for checked information?
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Doesn't look very good in the plain text: How about the plain text looking as natural as the rendered version: It gracefully degrades when rendered under generic Markdown:
And:
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use html text with css |
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Tags like Important, Checked, Issue would be very useful. Having a tag for all states of progress |
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ควย |
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ควยปั๊ก |
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Why use the blockquote element? HTML Standard says:
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Agreed that the generated HTML should not use
But since we are defining new syntax, we get to define the semantics. We are specifically saying that I looked at the HTML GitHub is rendering it with, and they are not using a div+class as they should: <blockquote>
<p><span class="color-fg-attention"><svg>...</svg>Warning</span><br>
This is a warning</p>
</blockquote>This should be fixed. It not only violates HTML semantics, it's going to make it less accessible. I'm not an expert, but there is probably a proper ARIA way to do this. |
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I find the conversation around markdown grammar interesting and I think when you consider the design of the markdown syntax it backs up my point even more.
Firstly this violates the principle of least surprise - it's not totally clear why that renders a warning Secondly, how do I now quote someone that has actually said " And finally, the proposed syntax changes GithHub Flavored Markdown in such a way that it adds more context to the grammar. I believe this to be the root cause of the two symptoms above. |
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The idea of GitHub-flavored Markdown changing the semantics of a |
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Please do us a favour and don't shamelessly advertise your stuff nobody really has interest in. |
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Could use a pipe symbol ( |
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Hi, I like the idea but I would like to propose alternative syntax. GitHub Flavored Markdown is a superset of CommonMark and thus ideally it stays close to that if possible. The generic directives proposal for CM is already used in the ecosystem, take for instance This is how it would look: This would mean:
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There is also the format provided by python markdown: |
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Any change to markdown introduces those: as any character is valid markdown, turning them into constructs is breaking. Noteworthy, this has not prevented a) GitHub rebasing GFM on top of CommonMark, b) the recent additions of diagrams, footnotes, and math. GitHub, by introducing a syntax, will change some readmes. Which is all the more reason to do it properly, ask the community for feedback (👍), and work with existing proposals.
The inverse is also true: the things GitHub implements, are “forced” upon other markdown parsers due to the sheer popularity of GitHub. This is not the first nor the last feature GitHub adds. And humans will have other custom needs for their markdown too. That is why, while I quite like the Obsidian syntax, and also quite like the current proposal, keeping on adding things just makes markdown like AsciiDoc, and AsciiDoc is already the best AsciiDoc out there. I see a need for an arbitrary “component” syntax, to quell the ever growing need to add things. And I prefer going with standards, and as far as I know generic directives are supported in many places already and most likely to become that. GitHub adding support makes it so.
I envision that unknown directives can be either: a) displayed somewhat similar to how YAML frontmatter is displayed, so that their name and attributes are displayed, b) replaced with their contents, similar to how unknown HTML tags are stripped
I don’t see the need for parity, which is indeed impossible, when there is a syntax for these custom things. It precisely prevents the need to increment syntax. |
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The obsidian community has (at least partially) settled on triple backticks for this. Off of the top of my head, these plugins:
hook the basic fenced code block syntax. I think this is the most flexible (should support a wide number of future usecases!) and also the most backwards compatible. Almost every markdown render engine can do at least the basic render of whatever comes between the open and close of the block and the more sophisticated ones support specifying a language variant immediately after the opening blocks.
Github supports many common language hints which is why one of the two blocks above rendered with added color / syntax. This renders "properly" in obsidian but not on github.. however, it's still pretty clear what's going on / what should show up there with a more capable render: While I am a fan of obsidian and the way they/microsoft have "augmented" the markdown standard with their compact callout/note syntax, I would prefer the more verbose style shown above as that degrades much more gracefully. However, I suspect that GH will eventually adopt something more like the obsidian/microsoft for reasons that can be summarized as "concise" |
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@dipree First you must have a baseline of requirements for the solution. I suggest:
The existing beta feature fails on all three. The directives proposal passes all three. |
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The currently implemented syntax results in Markdown files which are backwards incompatible with other/older renderers, while the alternatives suggested here do not. As others have pointed out, using the That is, by choosing this syntax, GitHub will cause other renderers to yield semantically incorrect output. This is backwards incompatibility and a step away from interoperability. Reusing any existing syntax for semantically incompatible purposes is definitionally a breaking change. The generic directive syntax, being wholly new, does not have this semantic incompatibility problem. Renderers which support the directive syntax but not this specific plugin will be able to fall back to a default (And if you don't buy the argument that colons littering the text does not constitute backward incompatibility, consider this alternative argument: By adopting a generic syntax for extensions, GitHub would break backwards compatibility exactly once and then be able to reuse the feature for all future extensions. Under the current design, we get a backwards incompatibility from special-casing the meaning of the The code block syntax, following Obsidian's conventions, is a dubious but defensible middle ground. Renderers which don't support the extension will just use Footnotes |
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Nice feature! Any way to use without blockquote though? |
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There is, yes! |
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More customization is always nice. What if you could specify the Github's Octoicon, color, and text? For example: to render the alert octicon (https://primer.github.io/octicons/alert-16) with a hex color of
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As @pboling pointed out earlier, I would be wary of providing Markdown authors with syntax specifically to accommodate their Octicon symbol name as it may contribute to vendor lock-in. I do, though, wonder whether this feature is only expected to offer users a couple of options (the fundamentals) or whether we should be expecting more choices in the future? If we have one admonition for warnings, we should be given at least one more for the danger zone/error prone/high severity callout content as well. With the two current choices of |
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I don't think it is a good choice. But opening up a space for users to pick the best color would be better. Too rich colors can cause visual fatigue for users。 |
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Seems like... > **Note**
> Text...is currently rendered on the same line in readme files, instead of two separate lines like it does here in discussion comments: How it's rendered here:
How it's rendered in readme:
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Soft breaks are not part of GFM. They work in comments/issues/prs/releases, but not in readmes/gists. |
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Well, if GFM says that linebreaks are parsed as soft line breaks but GitHub does something different in issues/PRs, I'd then argue that issues/PRs are not GFM-compliant. The GFM spec (https://github.github.com/gfm/) is written by GitHub so they have every opportunity to clarify the situation but they don't, so in my eyes their rendering of comments/issues/PRs is just a different dialect of Markdown and not GFM, though it's close. (BTW I know this discussion is purely academic 😄.) |
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CM deals with parsing. GFM inherits that property. You could argue that GFM is not compliant to CM, because it adds onto it. |
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I have to admit that I'm not as sure about the technical details or even terms like you are, but in laymen terms, if comments/issues/PRs started rendering two trailing spaces ( But ok, it's the way it is, in the past I've spent quite some time browsing the "Writing on GitHub" section of their docs to find definitive answers but it's often quite fuzzy 🤷♂️. I'm not entirely confident in their implementation either, for example, this new "Note" / "Warning" feature has a lot of strange rendering bugs like |
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There isn't really a reason why markdown in issues, Pull requests and discussions can't be GFM. It's just a slightly modified one. And why it behaves so differently in terms of line breaks should be obvious here: Not everyone who files an issue or posts a discussion knows the ins and outs of Markdown, let alone GFM, so not having to deal with that two spaces thing for line-breaks makes it easier for those new people. We could argue about the semantics, backwards compatibility, etc. of GFM with CommonMark until the heat-death of the universe. In the end does it not matter here. When adding new stuff is GitHub most likely thinking about how it is the easiest and most convenient to use for the end-users, which may not always be programmers or people with vast CommonMark knowledge. I mean some other features of GFM are barely known such as that when writing a HEX colour inside an inline-code block, it renders a small icon in that colour: |
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Instead, why not use highlight syntax for Add an letter and an extra Normal quote: |
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Would be cool if this can share the same syntax as Microsoft Docs "alerts" and Obsidian's "callouts". MS Docs format [1]: > [!NOTE]
> This is a note.
Obsidian format [2]: > [!Note] Callout can have an _optional_ title
> Callouts can also be nested:
> > [!Hint]- You can also create foldable callouts with `+` or `-`
> > This is hidden until unfolded.
[1]: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/contribute/markdown-reference#alerts-note-tip-important-caution-warning |
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I had never heard of Obsidian before seeing it mentioned here. Other than Obsidian Publish, are other services using Obsidian-Flavored Markdown? I would be curious to know how portable the syntax is. |
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Colors, more colores, yes |
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I agree to everything |
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I think this design format would make for a more readable and visible readme file. |
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This is awesome! 🚀 Would be great if we're offered more customization and standard syntax for these though. That'll allow many tools to auto support this.
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This syntax might hinder with what user actually wants to write The user will expect this to be rendered as following because
Also is Others have proposed great alternatives like Microsoft Docs Here is my take on the syntax. Suggestions are welcomed. |
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There is a Markdown RFC for a standard that would support this already. Not sure why they didn't use it, but it would be better to collaborate with the Markdown spec than make GFM even more of a monster. |
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i was thinking maybe |
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@dipree can you please update the spec at https://github.github.com/gfm/ And while you're there please publish that page on GH so we can make pull requests. I don't like that I need to bookmark your discussion thread here, in addition to the documentation, to have a complete reference for writing GFM. |
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Love this enhancement! Thank you! |
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Here's some VSCode snippets to make it easier to remember: {
"Note": {
"prefix": "note",
"body": [
"> [!NOTE]",
"> $1"
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"description": "GFM Note block"
},
"Important": {
"prefix": "important",
"body": [
"> [!IMPORTANT]",
"> $1"
],
"description": "GFM Important block"
},
"Warning": {
"prefix": "warning",
"body": [
"> [!WARNING]",
"> $1"
],
"description": "GFM Warning block"
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} |
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This is amazing, this is what I'm looking for! Much better now, we call it readme highlights? |
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Is it me? Or this isn't working inside the Click me!
But works without the Note Test Warning Test Important Test Is GitHub cooking something disgusting again? |
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Yes, they will just introduce a massive amount of bugs with a tiny amount of new features. |
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From the update notes it sounds like this was intended? Hopefully it wasn't meant to be prevented within a
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I'm afraid so. |
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Anek Patthaphong |
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a bit of a bumpy road, but it'll be really great when this feature stabilizes! |
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Raw (syntax highlighting also has minor issues with "```")## Update
- New types ([!TIP] and [!CAUTION] corresponding to the markdown renderer in Microsoft Learn) :rocket:
> [!TIP]
> This is a tip.
> [!CAUTION]
> This is a caution.
- MathJax expressions are now supported in alerts. :1234:
> [!NOTE]
> $\LaTeX$
- Code blocks nested in alerts can be copied now. :technologist:
> [!NOTE]
> ```
> git status
> ```
- Empty alerts are not allowed now.
> [!NOTE]<br>
- Alerts nested in blockquotes are not rendered now. :grimacing:
> This is a blockquote.
> > [!NOTE]
> > This is a note.
- Alerts nested in lists are not rendered now. :angry:
> [!NOTE]
> This is a note (broken).
- > [!NOTE]
> This is a note (broken).
- No backward compatibility :rage:
> **Note**
> This syntax is deprecated now.Update
Tip This is a tip. Caution This is a caution.
Note
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Yes specifically if you're using a list for onboarding steps/documentation and you want to bring people's attention to certain things or provide an alternate option in a note. The new changes broke many of my readmes. |
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You just need to remove the indentation to get it working, but I'd stress that it really would be great if we could stick with the current setup. These markers are helpful, but having to change them as much as I have has been an annoyance. Specifically when the task at hand is providing good documentation, something that already goes unnoticed, it would be great to not need to redo it so often. |
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I'm curious to hear what other GitHub staffs have to say about this update. |
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@dipree What prevents you from making the update process more democratic? |
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Here is another example of how nested alerts are utilized heavily: https://github.com/ReVanced/revanced-cli/blob/main/docs/1_usage.md#-patch-an-app |
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a bit sad you're dropping the old |
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Agreed! Loving the improvements, but I guess that's how things go |
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I would love to see this come to GitHub Enterprise ❤️ |
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As the initial syntax using e.g. Note isn't supported any longer after 14 November 2023. Could use remark-lint to automatically replace it with the new highlight syntax. Here is an example code snippet for the plugin: const gfmHighlightSyntaxFixs = [
{ from: 'Note', to: '[!NOTE]' },
{ from: 'Tip', to: '[!TIP]' },
{ from: 'Important', to: '[!IMPORTANT]' },
{ from: 'Warning', to: '[!WARNING]' },
{ from: 'Caution', to: '[!CAUTION]' },
];
export function remarkGfmHighlightSyntax() {
return async (tree: any) => {
const { visit } = await import('unist-util-visit');
visit(tree, 'blockquote', (node) => {
visit(node.children[0], 'strong', (subnode) => {
if (subnode.position.start.column !== 3) return;
visit(subnode, 'text', (textnode) => {
if (!['Note', 'Tip', 'Important', 'Warning', 'Caution'].includes(textnode.value)) return;
for (const item of gfmHighlightSyntaxFixs) {
if (item.from !== textnode.value) continue;
subnode.type = 'text';
subnode.value = item.to;
return;
}
});
});
});
};
}Input > **Note**\
> **Note** in paragraph will not to be replaced
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> Will not to be replaced **Note**
> demo
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> **Important**
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> - a
> - bOutput > [!NOTE]\
> **Note** in paragraph will not to be replaced
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> Will not to be replaced **Note**
> demo
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> - a
> - b |
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Anek Patthaphong |
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The syntax doesn't work after 14 November 2023 update when idented. |
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The highlight stops working if it is indented (even if it is correctly identified as a quote). Code: ### Build
1. Generate project
> [!TIP]
> Change build options' values as neededResult: |
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Unfortunately, this is intentional.
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This is bad. |
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I also feel it is bad. |
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Is nested block coming back in the future? |
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Very annoying that it suddenly stopped working :( Tip Make users happy by fixing it |
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Somehow the tag like IMPORTANT aren't being aligned with the wrapped text. Here I have aligned as center. Source from my profile |
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So, |
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Noticed that the icon isn't displayed while viewing these boxes through yout feed |
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Thanks, we'll have a look. |
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Please add also a button shortcut on the WYSIWYG editor on Github. Is hard to remember this syntax.
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I up this. It's not hard to remember the syntax, just hard to know which ones are supported like CAUTION, WARNING, NOTE, etc.. |
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I'm glad pleased to be here |
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Does not work in <details>: <details>
<summary>...</summary>
> [!NOTE]
> This does not work.
</details>...
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Duplicate: https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/16925#discussioncomment-7571187 |
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Alerts are an extension of Markdown used to emphasize critical information. On GitHub, they are displayed with distinctive colors and icons to indicate the importance of the content.
An example of all five types:
Here is how they are displayed:
Note
Highlights information that users should take into account, even when skimming.
Tip
Optional information to help a user be more successful.
Important
Crucial information necessary for users to succeed.
Warning
Critical content demanding immediate user attention due to potential risks.
Caution
Negative potential consequences of an action.
Update - 14 November 2023
[!TIP]and[!CAUTION].**Note**isn't supported any longer.Update - 12 October 2023
Update - 28 July 2023
Thank you all once again for providing a ton of feedback. Few more changes based on that:
Update - 26 July 2023
Thanks for all the comments, we are working on a handful of fixes. One of them is to support soft line breaks in Markdown documents, so it will work the same in comments versus docs.
Update - 21 July 2023
We've made several improvements in response to your feedback:
divinstead of ablockquote.IMPORTANT.[!NOTE], has been added, which will gradually replace the old one. However, the old syntax will continue to work for some time.Thanks to all for your valuable input on this topic!
Initial - 10 May 2022
To better highlight and separate certain information from the rest in your documentation on GitHub, we now render a special and accessible note or warning blockquote in Markdown documents. We are using the existing syntax for blockquote and bold text.
This input:
Becomes:
Let us know what you think and how this helps you provide better documentation. Please note that this is a beta feature that might be subject to change.
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