What is this red colored text?

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What is this? How do I turn the text to “normal”?

Any help is highly appreciated. Thanks in advance!

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In markdown, what you did in interpreted as code block

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Why? Can you elaborate on it a bit more please?

Also I just noticed it appears as normal text in preview mode.

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can you share a screenshot of the preview?

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Here.

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can you copy paste the exact sorce text including tabs and newlines?

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How to make a bomb

what is this red colored text that appears when I write something under a line which is followed by an empty line
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All I did was put an indent before the last (red colored) line. Also, if indenting one line turns it into a code block, shouldnt it also appear as code in preview mode? And why does this occur only when i put an empty line before it?

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Because this is the markdown specification.

look for code blocks

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I’m fairly new to markdown. I read the code block portion. Still not clear as to why it appears as code in editor mode but not in preview mode though.

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that is odd. Can you upload the file here or send it to me on discord?

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adding an indentation at the beginning sometimes formats it as a block code. (not sure if it’s a bug)
If you get rid of the indentation, it won’t format in red text.

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I’ve experienced this issue intermittently also. It usually happens when I’m editing lists (i.e. indenting or decreasing an indent). Have yet to see it when creating a “new” list and bullets.

I don’t have a specific example to hand, but I was not referencing any code block quotations and/or hotkeys etc.

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It’s not a bug. It’s the specifcation.

Text
<emptyline>
<tab>Text
=
Codeblock
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Edit and preview are okay for me.

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I might have found a bug.

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Apparently the code below only works for edit mode and not in preview mode (I don’t know much about coding so excuse me if the terms are wrong).

Text
<tab><emptyline>
<tab>Text
=
Codeblock
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That last gif definitely looks fishy.

Basically, though, per the Markdown spec: you never want to indent a paragraph unless it’s a code block. Indenting text as text really only works if the text is in a list.

# Demo heading

Some paragraph.

    Another paragraph, indented. This will be rendered as code.
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I had to tamper with the recorded screen-capture video file to make it fit into this website (originally it was a massive .mp4 file). Maybe that’s why it looks “fishy”.

Anyhow, I understand how indenting in relation to code-blocks work now.

The problem/bug (or whatever you wanna call it) is still there: the conflict between edit mode and preview mode for the second way I did it (in the gif).

Here’s a better version of the clip if the gif above is unclear.

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Sorry, we’re saying the same thing. I meant that yes, you’ve captured some odd behaviour in Obsidian.

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Thanks for finding the bug! Let’s mark this as resolved and @fourteen please submit a bug report with repro steps (if you can find one) so that we can fix it, to avoid causing further confusion, thanks!

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