Editing view in single note suddenly not display correctly

[tomtom69]

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What I’m trying to do

I’m working on a note, using various editing like highlight text with underline, bold, code blocks and pasting screenshots. Suddenly, the note looks completely ugly, no screenshots are displayed, no highglights (underline text) are being rendered, it’s just pure markdown like you would copy and paste a note to word. If I switch mode to reading mode, everything looks like it should. I cannot figure out which setting got altered. I was working in several windows on a mac and one command not intended for obsidian, but somewhere else, must have been executed because my cursor was by mistake in that note (?). This happened one time before and that time my only solution was to delete the note and redo everything. Really annoying. All the other notes look fine, both in editing and reading mode. Normally, I just use editing mode when searching my notes, because many times I also want to edit some text or add a new link, etc.

Probably it’s something simple but I just can’t figure out what went wrong. Would really appreciate some help.

Things I have tried

Tried googling and reading posts, but sorry cannot find the answer.

[ariehen]

Is the entire note displaying the raw Markdown, or does it start at some point in the note?

If it’s the entire note, not sure. You could be in Source mode?

If it starts at some point, look just above where it “breaks” for anything that looks like an unclosed HTML tag. e.g. <u>, <h, etc.

[tomtom69]

Thanks for fast reply!
It is the entire note (or was because I tried one thing after reading your reply). But your advice about the html tag was really relevant! Now, when I took away an opening tag and closing tag for underlined text, it suddenly went back to normal. Strange, I use underlined text a lot and can’t understand why it made this note behave strange? Any idea why that formatting would mess up the entire note?

[ariehen]

If a tag, or something Obsidian thinks is a tag, isn’t closed properly, it will mess with the rest of the formatting in Live Preview. For underlining with HTML,

<u>underline</u>

works fine.

[tomtom69]

Yeah, thats what so strange. I opened and closed the tag (like I use a lot to underline text) but this particular time it messed up the note. Very strange. Thanks for answering, appreciate it!