HTML code in GitHub’s README.md file

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When creating README.md file for your GitHub’s repository you can of course use Markdown with all it’s nifty styling. This includes as set of HTML tags that you can embed into any Markdown document.

GitHub extends this set with some extra tags, because it uses GitHub Flavored Markdown Spec, not the core Markdown implementation (a bit limited). But, it also limits it quite a lot, for security reasons.

One of the most missing feature is an ability to use in-line styling. So far, I thought that using CSS styles is simply impossible (or to be precise: you can use them, but GitHub quite aggressively strips them off when rendering Markdown content).

However, it turns out that with using a really sneaky approach, you can embed into your README.md file in your GitHub repo not only a full set of CSS styles, but also iframes, scripts and a whole lot of magic! :)

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Markdown formatting in block elements in WordPress

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Markdown formatter in WordPress (Jetpack’s one) by default does not format parts inside block elements:

<div style="margin-left: 50px">
Thus, _this_ will **not** work!
</div>

But, with addition of markdown="1" you can enable the magic:

<div style="margin-left: 50px" markdown="1">
And _this_ **will** work!
</div>

I love simple solutions!

Test page for Markdown on Save Improved plugin

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3 min. reading

This is a dummy example post body, that can be used for testing Markdown rendering in any WordPress post or in any Markdown supporting page at all. I wrote it months ago and started using it for testing Markdown on Save Improved plugin. But then in turned out, that this quick sheet can be used virtually everwhere, where Markdown can be used. Just paste everything or selected part to test and verify Markdown in your blog, website, service etc.

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