# Cross-reference onebox is bungling code formatting
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/cross-reference-onebox-is-bungling-code-formatting/34529
**Category:** Feature
**Tags:** onebox
**Created:** [October 14, 2015, 11:46pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cross-reference-onebox-is-bungling-code-formatting/34529 "2015-10-14T23:46:37Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@malmaud](https://meta.discourse.org/u/malmaud)
#### Post date: [October 14, 2015, 11:46pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cross-reference-onebox-is-bungling-code-formatting/34529/1 "2015-10-14T23:46:37Z")
For example, following the link below gives a page with perfect code formatting, but the preview doesn’t inherit that formatting.
[http://julia.malmaud.com/t/testing-julia-syntax-highlighting/3204](http://julia.malmaud.com/t/testing-julia-syntax-highlighting/3204)
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### Author:  [@hayd](https://meta.discourse.org/u/hayd)
#### Post date: [October 19, 2015, 3:29pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cross-reference-onebox-is-bungling-code-formatting/34529/2 "2015-10-19T15:29:23Z")
Is the content og:description, and so plain text rather than markdown?
This is related to the [read the docs issue](https://github.com/rtfd/readthedocs.org/issues/1758) - can you pass html to one box via og:XXX?
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [March 7, 2016, 11:23pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cross-reference-onebox-is-bungling-code-formatting/34529/3 "2016-03-07T23:23:50Z")
Pulling across formatting is a major scope increase for onebox…
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### Author:  [@chapoi](https://meta.discourse.org/u/chapoi)
#### Post date: [December 4, 2025, 11:37am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cross-reference-onebox-is-bungling-code-formatting/34529/4 "2025-12-04T11:37:03Z")