[MM3-users] Re: Postorius not HTML-decoding < to "<" characters

[Mark Sapiro]

On 11/9/24 17:09, Mark Sapiro wrote:

Here's what's going on. In normal text, mistune disables HTML tags by 
converting `<` to the html entity `&lt;`, but your browser renders the 
HTML entity `&lt;` as `<` so you see what was written.

The issue here is the text you quoted was originally in a markdown code 
block, i.e. preceded and followed by lines of three backticks. Code 
blocks are intended to be seen literally as written so they are wrapped 
in <pre><code> ... </code></pre> tags in the HTML and also HTML escaped. 
The problem is the tag disabling converts `<` to `&lt;` but then the 
HTML escaping converts `&lt;` to `&amp;lt;` which your browser then 
renders as `&lt;` rather than `<`.

(aside, it will be interesting to see how that is rendered in the archive)

The backtick quoting causes the < to be rendered as `&lt;` Here are the 
above two paragraphs written in a way (removing the backticks from 
around <) that I hope will render as I intended.

Here's what's going on. In normal text, mistune disables HTML tags by 
converting < to the html entity `&lt;`, but your browser renders the 
HTML entity `&lt;` as < so you see what was written.

The issue here is the text you quoted was originally in a markdown code 
block, i.e. preceded and followed by lines of three backticks. Code 
blocks are intended to be seen literally as written so they are wrapped 
in <pre><code> ... </code></pre> tags in the HTML and also HTML escaped. 
The problem is the tag disabling converts < to `&lt;` but then the HTML 
escaping converts `&lt;` to `&amp;lt;` which your browser then renders 
as `&lt;` rather than <.


--
Mark Sapiro <m...@msapiro.net>        The highway is for gamblers,
San Francisco Bay Area, California    better use your sense - B. Dylan

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