Handling non-HTML xml tags in preview

[woofy31]

@hans_nerd

I would want unrecognized inline XML tags to just render as plain text.

You may want to read this with a solution to render them as plain text:

Live Preview Breaks After Quoting Text Enclosed in <>

That’s because Obsidian assumes you are trying to mix HTML code with Markdown code (<foo> is considered an open HTML tag and must be closed with a corresponding </foo> tag, same for <bar> that requires a </bar>, in which case the image will show up just fine) Solution: to avoid this, you must escape any HTML tag with a \ prefix, like so: \<foo>-\<bar>; this will tell Obsidian that you are NOT trying to mix HTML with markdown code, and that you actually want the angled bracket (even this forum…