[MM3-users] Re: Postorius not HTML-decoding &lt; to "<" characters

On 11/9/24 17:09, Mark Sapiro wrote:

Here's what's going on. In normal text, mistune disables HTML tags by converting < to the html entity <, but your browser renders the HTML entity < as < so you see what was written.

The issue here is the text you quoted was originally in a markdown code block, i.e. preceded and followed by lines of three backticks. Code blocks are intended to be seen literally as written so they are wrapped in <pre><code> ... </code></pre> tags in the HTML and also HTML escaped. The problem is the tag disabling converts < to < but then the HTML escaping converts < to < which your browser then renders as < rather than <.

(aside, it will be interesting to see how that is rendered in the archive)

The backtick quoting causes the < to be rendered as < Here are the above two paragraphs written in a way (removing the backticks from around <) that I hope will render as I intended.

Here's what's going on. In normal text, mistune disables HTML tags by converting < to the html entity <, but your browser renders the HTML entity < as < so you see what was written.

The issue here is the text you quoted was originally in a markdown code block, i.e. preceded and followed by lines of three backticks. Code blocks are intended to be seen literally as written so they are wrapped in <pre><code> ... </code></pre> tags in the HTML and also HTML escaped. The problem is the tag disabling converts < to < but then the HTML escaping converts < to < which your browser then renders as < rather than <.

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