topic Re: Blockquotes not working when posting questions on this site in Splunk Search

Blockquotes not working when posting questions on this site

vqd361 — Tue, 19 May 2015 15:50:32 GMT

Dear Splunk,

When typing a question on this site, the editor says I can blockquote by using a greater than symbol before the text. In fact, there's a button for it in the editor's toolbar.

> This text should be blockquoted.

I can see the blockquoted text in my editing preview. However, when I post the question the blockquoted part is no longer blockquoted. Instead, the greater than symbols are displayed.

It'd be great if you could fix this bug.

Re: Blockquotes not working when posting questions on this site

woodcock — Tue, 19 May 2015 19:30:06 GMT

Markdown has been broken for months and every few days it changes a little bit. I have never seen anything like it.

Re: Blockquotes not working when posting questions on this site

ChrisG — Tue, 19 May 2015 19:49:21 GMT

Blockquotes do seem to work now:

this is blockquoted text

I agree that there are some weird markdown issues on this site, I know the team is looking at figuring them out and documenting any restrictions.

Re: Blockquotes not working when posting questions on this site

vqd361 — Tue, 19 May 2015 19:51:25 GMT

Another test.

Blockquote

Re: Blockquotes not working when posting questions on this site

vqd361 — Tue, 19 May 2015 19:55:00 GMT

Interesting. It works for answers, but not for the question. When I clicked the button to submit the original question, I briefly saw something like "gt;" appear where the greater than symbol was. Maybe there's some javascript that's trying to sanitize the input and it's clobbering the greater than symbol.