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Markdown in a blog post

Morning all,

I'm having a bit of trouble with Markdown at the moment.

I've written a post which has some code blocks in it. I'm using Markdown to mark these blocks up and in the preview, it all works really well except for the less than (<) or greater than (>) symbols which are being output as text rather than html (see screenshot here > https://cl.ly/403J1z0O2s1Q)

Is there any reason why this is doing that?

Additionally, I'm trying to add an <aside> of text in but when adding <aside> into my Perch textarea, it's being parsed as text rather than HTML. I then tried adding a div in but that too is coming out as text rather than HTML > https://cl.ly/2M0L22060u32

What could be causing these issues?

My diagnostic report: -

SUMMARY INFORMATION

Perch: 2.8.23, PHP: 5.4.43, MySQL: 5.6.28, with PDO
Server OS: Linux, cgi-fcgi
Installed apps: content (2.8.23), assets (2.8.23), categories (2.8.23), perch_blog (4.6), perch_forms (1.8.3), perch_comments (1.1)
App runtimes: <?php include(PERCH_PATH.'/core/apps/content/runtime.php'); include(PERCH_PATH.'/addons/apps/perch_forms/runtime.php'); include(PERCH_PATH.'/addons/apps/perch_blog/runtime.php'); include(PERCH_PATH.'/core/apps/categories/runtime.php'); ?>
PERCH_LOGINPATH: /perch
PERCH_PATH: /home/mrqwestc/public_html/mrqwest/perch
PERCH_CORE: /home/mrqwestc/public_html/mrqwest/perch/core
PERCH_RESFILEPATH: /home/mrqwestc/public_html/mrqwest/perch/resources
Image manipulation: GD Imagick
PHP limits: Max upload 2M, Max POST 8M, Memory: 128M, Total max file upload: 2M
F1: dc1fef2ad0fcd9f943c02ebb43d85dbc
Resource folder writeable: Yes
DOCUMENT_ROOT: /home/mrqwestc/public_html/mrqwest
HTTP_HOST: mrqwest.co.uk
REQUEST_URI: /perch/core/settings/diagnostics/
SCRIPT_NAME: /perch/core/settings/diagnostics/index.php

And here's my template code

<perch:blog id="postDescHTML" type="textarea" label="Post" order="2" editor="markitup" markdown="true" size="xxl autowidth" required="true" />
Anthony Killeen

Anthony Killeen 0 points

  • 5 years ago
Drew McLellan

Drew McLellan 2638 points
Perch Support

5 years ago

Can you give an example of the input?
Anthony Killeen

Anthony Killeen 0 points

5 years ago

Just as an FYI, I've fixed the first issue by surrounding my code in 3 tilde's (~~~) rather than just indenting. That's fixed that but I'm not sure how to add in a div with class halfway through my content?
Anthony Killeen

Anthony Killeen 0 points

5 years ago

Drew, input for the second section here

<div class="aside">
this is my aside content.
</div>
Drew McLellan

Drew McLellan 2638 points
Perch Support

5 years ago

If you want that to literally be HTML, you need to add html="true" to your tag. Otherwise HTML is escaped by default.
Anthony Killeen

Anthony Killeen 0 points

5 years ago

Ahh, excellent - thanks Drew :)