When writing in gist, and using mark down mode, we need to enter a blank line between two lines if we want to break a line (add a new line).
Is it possible to break a line without the need of a space (blank line between them)?
As Ryan said, in markdown the most conventional way of creating a linebreak is by adding two spaces at the end of a line. Though GFM also supports the use of basic HTML blocks, so <br> can also be used to create linebreaks, which can be helpful where multiple linebreaks are needed.
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How do I prevent newlines in the readme.md files (GitHub)?
We can always write the whole thing in one line to prevent it. But is there an exclusive tag/option to prevent the same, especially for tags that create newlines (headings) like span in html?
Doesn't a space followed by a backslash do the concatenation you want? It does for me. That way I can break a paragraph into one sentence per line.
I'm struggling to add empty spaces before the string starts to make my GitHub README.md looks something like this:
Right now it looks like this:
I tried adding <br /> tag to fix the new string start, now it works, but I don't understand how to add spaces before the string starts without changing everything to . Maybe there's a more elegant way to format it?
You can use <pre> to display all spaces & blanks you have typed. E.g.:
<pre>
hello, this is
just an example
....
</pre>
Markdown really changes everything to html and html collapses spaces so you really can't do anything about it. You have to use the for it. A funny example here that I'm writing in markdown and I'll use couple of here.
Above there are some without backticks
Instead of using HTML entities like and (as others have suggested), you can use the Unicode em space (8195 in UTF-8) directly. Try copy-pasting the following into your README.md. The spaces at the start of the lines are em spaces.
The action of every agent <br />
into the world <br />
starts <br />
from their physical selves. <br />
I'm surprised no one mentioned the HTML entities and which produce horizontal white space equivalent to the characters n and m, respectively. If you want to accumulate horizontal white space quickly, those are more efficient than .
no space
Along with <space> and , these are the five entities HTML provides for horizontal white space.
Note that except for , all entities allow breaking. Whatever text surrounds them will wrap to a new line if it would otherwise extend beyond the container boundary. With it would wrap to a new line as a block even if the text before could fit on the previous line.
Depending on your use case, that may be desired or undesired. For me, unless I'm dealing with things like names (John Doe), addresses or references (see eq. 5), breaking as a block is usually undesired.
Markdown gets converted into HTML/XHMTL.
John Gruber created the Markdown language in 2004 in collaboration with Aaron Swartz on the syntax, with the goal of enabling people to write using an easy-to-read, easy-to-write plain text format, and optionally convert it to structurally valid HTML (or XHTML).
HTML is completely based on using for adding extra spaces if it doesn't externally define/use JavaScript or CSS for elements.
Markdown is a lightweight markup language with plain text formatting syntax. It is designed so that it can be converted to HTML and many other formats using a tool by the same name.
If you want to use »
only one space » either use or just hit Spacebar (2nd one is good choice in this case)
more than one space » use +space (for 2 consecutive spaces)
eg. If you want to add 10 spaces contiguously then you should use
space space space space space
instead of using 10 one after one as the below one
For more details check
Adding multiple spaces between text in Markdown,
How to create extra space in HTML or web page.
After different tries, I end up to a solution since most markdown interpreter support Math environment.
The following adds one white space :
$~$
And here ten:
$~~~~~~~~~~~$
As a workaround, you can use a code block to render the code literally. Just surround your text with triple backticks ```. It will look like this:
2018-07-20 Wrote this answer
Can format it without
Also don't need <br /> for new line
Note that using <pre> and <code> you get slightly different behaviour:   and <br /> will be parsed rather than inserted literally.
<pre>:
2018-07-20 Wrote this answer
Can format it without
Also don't need for new line
<code>:
2018-07-20 Wrote this answer
Can format it without
Also don't need for new line
You can also use spaces from the known list:
 
'6-per-em space'
'narrow no-break space'
'thin space'
'4-per-em space'  
'no breaking space'
'punctuation space'  
'3-per-em space'  
'en space'
'figure space'  
'em space'
I have tried so many methods on Github markdown.
Only starting the line with </br> with a normal empty line underneath works for me.
(so two line in total; one just </br> and one is empty)
One line of </br> will do the line break. The reason for the empty line underneath is that it won't mess up the formats of the content coming up.
I am talking about github markdown here, for files like README.md.
Question:
Is it possible to strikethrough a complete code block in markdown on github?
I know how to mark text as a block of code
this is
multiline code
and
this
this
also
by indenting by 4 spaces or by using ``` or `...
I also know how to strike through texts using
del tag
s tag
~~
Temporary solution:
Independently they work fine, but together not as expected or desired. I tried several combinations of the above mentioned.
For now, I use this:
striked
through
by using ~~ and ` for every single line.
Requirement:
I would like to have a code formatted text striked through, where the code block is continuous:
unfortunately, this is
not striked through
or at least with only a small paragraph in between:
unfortunately, also not
striked through
Is this possible at all?
I found some old posts and hints on using jekyll, but what I was searching for is a simple way, preferably in markdown.
This would only be possible with raw HTML, which GitHub doesn't allow. But you may be able to use a diff instead.
Code blocks are for "pre-formatted" text only. The only formatting you can get in a code block is the formatting that can be represented in plain text (indentation, capitalization, etc). There is no mechanism to mark up the content of a code block (as bold, italic, stricken, underlined, etc). This was an intentional design decision. Otherwise, how would you be able to show Markdown text in a code block? If you want formatted text, then you need to use something other than a code block.
As the rules state:
HTML is a publishing format; Markdown is a writing format. Thus, Markdown’s formatting syntax only addresses issues that can be conveyed in plain text.
For any markup that is not covered by Markdown’s syntax, you simply use HTML itself.
Therefore you would need to format your own custom HTML code block with the various bits marked up properly:
<pre><code><del>some stricken code</del>
<del>A second line of stricken code</del>
</code></pre>
However, for security reasons, GitHub will strip out any such raw HTML in your Markdown. So while this works where you have full control of the entire stack, on a hosted service it is most likely not possible.
However, I'm assuming you want to show some changes made to a block of code. As it turns out, a specific format already exists for that, namely, a diff. Just use a fenced code block with diff as the language and GitHub will format it correctly:
```diff
Unchanged Line
- Removed Line
+ Added Line
```
You can see how GitHub displays the above code block live (you can also see that in raw), but I've included a screenshot below for convenience.
I realize that the formatting does not use strike-through, but it does use a commonly used and understood format. For more complex blocks, you should probably use the diff utility program to generate the diff for you.
Expanding on Waylan's answer:
This may be obvious to others, but it caught me. When you have indented lines, be sure + or - is the first character on the line or it won't highlight.
```diff
<div>
Unchanged Line
<ul>
- <li>This won't work</li>
- <li>This will</li>
+ <li>1st character, then indent</li>
</ul>
</div>
```
After much much trying, I finally got it to work! It boils down to this:
inside ``` block, nothing is rendered (other than syntax highlights for language specified)
inside <code> block, markdown won't render, only HTML. You can use <strike>. It's fine, but you don't get the syntax coloring
now for the magic: use HTML for striking, and markdown for coloring:
<strike>
```language
this is
multiline code
```
</strike>
P.S. ``` blocks should always be surrounded by blank lines to work
On the subject of marking up the content of a code block, to tack an italicized string on to the end of a line of "code", try something like:
<code>id\_pn\_aside\_subscriber\_form\__form\_id_</code>
(You can see this in action at: https://github.com/devonostendorf/post-notif#how-do-you-use-the-stylesheet_filename-attribute-with-the-shortcode)
I had a hard time finding an example that matched this precise use case, so I hope this proves useful for anyone else trying to accomplish a similar effect.
So this web page is rendering with these symbols and they are found throughout this website/application but on no other sites. Can anyone tell me
What this symbol is?
Why it is showing up only in one browser?
That character is U+2028 Line Separator, which is a kind of newline character. Think of it as the Unicode equivalent of HTML’s <br>.
As to why it shows up here: my guess would be that an internal database uses LSEP to not conflict with literal newlines or HTML tags (which might break the database or cause security errors), and either:
The server-side scripts that convert the database to HTML neglected to replace LSEP with <br>
Chrome just breaks standards by displaying LSEP as a printing (visible) character, or
You have a font installed that displays LSEP as a printing character that only Chrome detects. To figure out which font it is, right click on the offending text and click “Inspect”, then switch to the “Computed” tab on the right-hand panel. At the very bottom you should see a section labeled “Rendered Fonts” which will help you locate the offending font.
More information on the line separator, excerpted from the Unicode standard, Chapter 5.8, Newline Guidelines (on p. 12 of this PDF):
Line Separator and Paragraph Separator
A paragraph separator—independent of how it is encoded—is used to indicate a
separation between paragraphs. A line separator indicates where a line break
alone should occur, typically within a paragraph. For example:
This is a paragraph with a line separator at this point,
causing the word “causing” to appear on a different line, but not causing
the typical paragraph indentation, sentence breaking, line spacing, or
change in flush (right, center, or left paragraphs).
For comparison, line separators basically correspond to HTML <BR>, and
paragraph separators to older usage of HTML <P> (modern HTML delimits
paragraphs by enclosing them in <P>...</P>). In word processors, paragraph
separators are usually entered using a keyboard RETURN or ENTER; line
separators are usually entered using a modified RETURN or ENTER, such as
SHIFT-ENTER.
A record separator is used to separate records. For example, when exchanging
tabular data, a common format is to tab-separate the cells and to use a CRLF
at the end of a line of cells. This function is not precisely the same as line
separation, but the same characters are often used.
Traditionally, NLF started out as a line separator (and sometimes record
separator). It is still used as a line separator in simple text editors such as
program editors. As platforms and programs started to handle word processing
with automatic line-wrap, these characters were reinterpreted to stand for
paragraph separators. For example, even such simple programs as the Windows
Notepad program and the Mac SimpleText program interpret their platform’s NLF
as a paragraph separator, not a line separator. Once NLF was reinterpreted to
stand for a paragraph separator, in some cases another control character was
pressed into service as a line separator. For example, vertical tabulation VT
is used in Microsoft Word. However, the choice of character for line separator
is even less standardized than the choice of character for NLF. Many Internet
protocols and a lot of existing text treat NLF as a line separator, so an
implementer cannot simply treat NLF as a paragraph separator in all
circumstances.
Further reading:
Unicode Technical Report #13: Newline Guidelines
General Punctuation (U+2000–U+206F) chart PDF
SE: Why are there so many spaces and line breaks in Unicode?
SO: What is unicode character 2028 (LS / Line Separator) used for?
U+2028 on codepoints.net A misprint here says that U+2028 was added in v. 1.1 of the Unicode standard, which is false — it was added in 1.0
I found that in WordPress the easiest way to remove "L SEP" and "P SEP" characters is to execute this two SQL queries:
UPDATE wp_posts SET post_content = REPLACE(post_content, UNHEX('e280a9'), '')
UPDATE wp_posts SET post_content = REPLACE(post_content, UNHEX('e280a8'), '')
The javascript way (mentioned in some of the answers) can break some things (in my case some modal windows stopped working).
You can use this tool...
http://www.nousphere.net/cleanspecial.php
...to remove all the special characters that Chrome displays.
Steps:
Paste your HTML and Clean using HTML option.
You can manually delete the characters in the editor on this page and see the result.
Paste back your HTML in file and save :)
I recently ran into this issue, tried a number of fixes but ultimately I had to paste the text into VIM and there was an extra space I had to delete. I tried a number of HTML cleaners but none of them worked, VIM was the key!
9999years answers is great.
In case you use Symfony with Twig template I would recommend to check for an empty Twig block. In my case it was an empty Twig block with an invisible char inside.
The LSEP char was only displayed on certain device / browser.
On the other I had a blank space above the header and I could not see any invisible char.
I had to inspect the GET request to see that the value 1f18 was before the open html tag.
Once I removed an empty Twig block it was gone.
hope this can help someone one day ...
My problem was similar, it was "PSEP" or "P SEP". Similar issue, an invisible character in my file.
I replaced \x{2029} with a normal space. Fixed. This problem only appeared on Windows Chrome. Not on my Mac.
I agree with #Kapil Bathija - Basically you can copy & paste your HTML code into http://www.nousphere.net/cleanspecial.php and convert it.
Then it will convert the special characters for you - Just remove the spaces in between the words and you will realize you have to press backspace 2x meaning there is an invalid character that can't be translated.
I had the same issue and it worked just fine afterwards.
You can also copy the text, paste it into a HTML editor such as Coda, remove the linebreak, copy it and paste it back into your site.
Video here: https://www.loom.com/share/501498afa7594d95a18382f1188f33ce
Looks like my client pasted HTML into Wordpress after initially creating it with MS-Word. Even deleting the and visible spaces did not fix the issue. The extended characters became visible in vi/vim.
If you don't have vi/vim available, try highlighting from 2 chars before the LSEP to 2 chars after the LSEP; delete that chunk, and re-type the correct characters.
in MS Word 2010, is it possible to include a manual line breaks in the formatting for a numbered list?
What I mean is I'm creating a style that includes numbering in a list. I'd like the list to appear like this:
Section 1[MLB]
Benefits
Section 2[MLB]
Drawbacks
etc.
I'm in the Define New Number Format dialog box, trying to find a way to include a manual line break in the Number Format field. I've got the word "Section" in there, but the line break is a problem so far. I've tried ^|, which is the search-and-replace code for manual line breaks. But that includes a literal carat followed by a pipe. Is there some other way of including things like paragraph breaks or line breaks in numbered lists? Thanks everyone.