Expected behaviour
<DIV CLASS="foo">
*em*
</DIV>
is expected to render to
<DIV CLASS="foo">
<p><em>Markdown</em></p>
</DIV>
Observed behaviour
<DIV CLASS="foo">
*em*
</DIV>
Renders to (whitespace edited for clarity)
<div>
<div class="foo"></div>
</div>
<div>
<p><em>em</em></p>
</div>
<div>
</div>
Rationale
From the Obsidian documentation
We strive for maximum capability without breaking any existing formats, therefore we use a slightly unorthodox combination of flavors of markdown. It is broadly CommonMark, with the addition of some functionality from GitHub Flavored Markdown (GFM) […]
According to both the CommonMark specs and the GFM specs embedded markdown within HTML tags in all caps should work as expected. In other words:
<DIV CLASS="foo">
*Markdown*
</DIV>
Should render to
<DIV CLASS="foo">
<p><em>Markdown</em></p>
</DIV>
If Obsidian is behaving as intended and this is not a bug, it may be worth documenting the differences to CommonMark and GFM in the documentation notes on formatting.
Environment
- Operating system: Linux
- Debug info:
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