Behaviour of obsidian with html and latex

Bug graveyard
1

Hi,

I opened one of my university’s markdown files in obsidian. It contained some html which produced some unexpected behaviour. Here is a minimal example:

Step 1 to reproduce

Copy this in a new document:

This $x = 2$ is some math

Then comes some html:

<div>
<center><img src="https://i.imgur.com/D05ztwX.jpeg" width="400">
</div>

Then comes an equation $x=3$ which does not get rendered correctly.

Step 2 to reproduce

Now remove the closing tag of the opening “div”:

This $x = 2$ is some math

Then comes some html:

<div
<center><img src="https://i.imgur.com/D05ztwX.jpeg" width="400">
</div>

Now the image appears and the equation $x=3$ gets rendered correctly.

I’ve attached two screenshots of how it looks like on my notebook.

Environment

  • Operating system: Ubuntu

Screenshots

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2

Your html is wrong.

3

Then incorrect html breaks the display of latex which may or may not be intentional.