When inserting a link via the SE editor it happens a lot that a broken link is generated.  This seems to happen because a link is selected as text and pasted into the box.  The result is a generated http://%20https:  Reason: If the selection contained a leading space, the editor assumes to insert http:// would be the right thing to do. It is often not. This space is very hard to make out in the box, and the generated link is inserted at the bottom of the editor window, often out of sight.  Since the resulting construct is senseless and uniform, please add a logic that either strips out this leading space in hyperlinks or checks for the presence of http://%20https: and deals with it.
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When you paste a link into the "Insert Hyperlink" box, it adds it automatically as a citation link:  [Example 1][1]    [1]: http://example.com   But when you paste a link starting with a space , it tries to URL encode it, to change the space to %20, and then sticks a http:// on the front to make it a valid link:  [Example 2][2]    [2]: http://%20http://example.com   This, however, means the link doesn't work.    Please could leading whitespace be stripped from the URL?
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When I type a URL in angle brackets, such as &lt;;, in a comment, the URL is not detected and linked.  Supporting this would allow links to be used more naturally in the flow of text in a comment.  This notation is recommended for embedding URLs in running text by ; quotes are also recommended (I do not know if quotes work or not).
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Random text is getting dropped from Wikipedia oneboxes. See . Screenshot:  This occurs regardless of HTTP/HTTPS and of whether a redirect URL is entered into chat. I initially thought the bug is triggered by &lt;span&gt;s or other HTML formatting elements, but in the Burj Khalifa article's HTML source code, there is no formatting around one of the deleted words. Possibly related to , but this is not specific to numbers.
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Notes:  Answers will occasionally be moved to the  when there are too many of them. When using them to report bugs, keep an eye on the post.    This site, Meta Stack Exchange, is usually used as a &quot;test bed&quot; for pending changes happening to the way text is rendered on all network sites. Changes to text rendering that are going to be rolled out to the network are usually deployed here first to test them out and fix any potential glitches. Currently, there are no such changes pending, but if there were, keep in mind that text posted here may render differently from the other sites until the changes roll out to them as well.    As per Jeff's suggestion in : You can use this question as a formatting sandbox. You can:  edit  itself ( questions such as this one require only 100 reputation to edit instead of 2,000) post answers to this question (This question might be , requiring earning 10 reputation on this site to answer) post comments to this question or its answers test suspected bugs with the editor or the rendering post ponies (only when mods are asleep)   Beware that since the  in December 2010, and  added in March 2011, no syntax highlighting is applied unless the question's tags or an inline hint enable it. So, to test highlighting here in the sandbox:  , you can use GitHub-flavor fenced code blocks in your posts, specifying the language after the opening fence: ```html While not hinted otherwise: &lt;html&gt;&lt;/html&gt; source &lt;b&gt;goes&lt;/b&gt; &quot;here&quot;. ```  ```js var a = 3; while (not (a &gt; 0)) {     alert(&quot;JavaScript code &lt;b&gt;goes&lt;/b&gt; here.&quot;); } ```   Or:  Create code blocks in any way (using the fence notation above, the four-space indent form, or using HTML &lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; tags).  Save your post.  Use your browser's developer tools to edit the resulting HTML. To open developer tools, press F12, or ⌥⌘ I on Mac.  Find the &lt;pre&gt; element and add the attribute class=&quot;prettyprint&quot;, or change it into one of the valid syntax hints linked above, like class=&quot;lang-vb prettyprint&quot;.  Run the following in the location bar: javascript:prettyPrint(); or prettyPrint() in the console.     Answers that are considered annoying or obnoxious, or that cause breakage for users, will be deleted. This is .
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I've posted a lot to StackOverflow, and I've noticed something kind of irritating with the formatting in writing questions and comments. If I need to put something inside a &lt; and a >, without spaces in the middle (like right there), it will think it's code and not show up, like this   (obviously it won't come up what I wrote there, or else this wouldn't be an issue, but if you open up the question to edit you can see what's written there.)  If I want it to show up, right now I have to add an extra set of brackets inside of the originals with a junk variable, like right &lt;here> (again, open in edit window to see).  This is really annoying when trying to show variables like lists that require those brackets, and I feel like the junk variables could confuse people looking at the edits. Is there a way to get around this formatting? Thanks!
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Whenever I try to insert " or ' I have to validate it by space, otherwise strange things happen as with ' followed by an a becomes áinstead of just 'a, similar behaviour with double quotes. I find this annoying and want to disable it. How do I do that?
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The following code   \documentclass{article} \usepackage{filecontents} \begin{filecontents*}{"a b c.tex"} one two \end{filecontents*}  \usepackage{listings} \usepackage{hyperref}  \begin{document} \lstinputlisting[caption={\url{a b c.tex}}]{"a b c.tex"} \end{document}   produces a hyperlink with suppressed spaces given in the path.   How to prevent \url from removing the spaces in a path?
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I just noticed that clicking a JS-like link on MSO (like to show more hot network questions) just bumps me to the top of the page and doesn't do anything else.   Also, adding a comment or any other JS-related feature (i.e. inline editing, 10k inline comment editing) is borked.
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The text editor that is shown when editing tag descriptions still uses the previous behaviour for inserting links and images. Also, the placeholder text for links is still http:// instead of https:// compared to the new editor. Another &quot;nice to have&quot; feature that exists in the main editor is the ability to paste an image from clipboard directly to the text editor without having to press the &quot;insert image&quot; toolbar-icon first. Can it get updated to match the editor we use for questions and answers?  The following screenshot is an example of how it looks if I try to insert a link for a tag description:  In comparison, this is how it looks in the new editor:
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Don't know if it's intentional or not, but hyperlinks are colored like a normal text in the generated PDF on careers.stackoverflow.com, which makes them indistinguishable.
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Related to, but believed not a duplicate of, .  Below is explained a rendering issue for MarkDown affecting many if not all SE sites. Further, I seem to be finding additional issues related to rendering or parsing of MarkDown in SE as to deviate markedly and adversely from generic handling of MarkDown text. What information can be provided, for now only about the issue described below, specifically regarding the following questions?:  Is an official channel available to communicate such issues to SE staff responsible for development, marketing, or quality-assurance? Has any such channel been invoked for the issue? Has a response been offered that either acknowledges the issue or rejects the complaint?   Currently, Stack Exchange sites appear to format incorrectly the below Markdown content: - List item.    * Sublist item    * Sublist item    *Should be space above this line*.  - List item.  The spacing between all items should be roughly uniform. In fact, the spacing immediately above the inner list is inappropriately expansive, whereas that immediately after it is inappropriately condensed. As currently rendered by Stack Exchange: (Note: Since these comments originally appeared,  have been introduced, intending to mitigate the problems described. These improvements may be reflected in the formatting of text below.)  List item.  Sublist item  Sublist item   Should be space above this line.  List item.
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I am seeing a weird indentation for questions loaded via AJAX (i.e., by clicking the n question(s) with new activity link). The following screenshot was taken before I clicked the link:  And this is after the new question was loaded:  A browser refresh resolves the problem (as can be expected). It was tested with Chrome 88 and Firefox 85 on  (Catalina).
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When a code snippet is long enough to prompt scrolling (especially horizontal scrolling), it would be helpful to offer a link to view the code snippet in a new window.  I'm thinking that the link should be positioned below the snippet, since most people will decide to use it after scanning the part of the snippet that is visible without scrolling.
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Possible Duplicate:          Maybe this is more for SuperUser website, but as it appears all stack exchange use the same approach I'll ask it globally.  On posts, we can add links to external websites. The link to the various external websites are a light blue with no underline (I mean the HTML a href link). Now, underline in the world of HTML = a link!! Simple as that. Don't get me wrong, I'm a web dev/designer and I rather not use the underline (it's nicer on the eye) but I can't comment now on the amount of time I've replied to a post to only realize I've missed the link in the original question! Well, not only have I waisted the OP time by having to re-alert me I'm repeating his data, I've been marked down (well, it is my fault!) but worse, I may have spent a long time researching the answer!  I also know it could be my screen calibration etc, but, on SuperUser could we either have a darker colour or a rule so links are underlined through out?  EDIT As per Frédéric Hamidi , this has been asked before, but it was asked in 2009 so I'd like this to be a new consideration (if possible).
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Is there a way for a link to be copied with the selected text?  "Some selected text with this  somewhere in the paragraph"  To be copied as:  "Some selected text with this { link |  } somewhere in the paragraph"  If there is anything like that it would be great help.
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I was reading through some badge descriptions and noticed that Synonymizer's description needs to be updated. As it stands, there is raw HTML (an href) in the description:    EDIT: after reading comments by @ColeJohnson, I have come to the understanding that this post comes off as whiny. I want to make it very clear that I wasn't ever trying to complain. My first reaction was to fix the perceived error myself. When I realized I was unable to do so, I figured the best course of action would be to find someone who would be able to make the necessary edits. Hence the post here.
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In my comment here:    I needed to have a : symbol with a leading space, but I couldn't figure out how to get it.  And for some reason it converts differently in this question to how it would in a comment - as you can see, in the comment box ` :` wasn't turned into code block at all.  Is it impossible, by design, to have leading or trailing space in a codeblock?