# Disable markdown and buttons in form

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/disable-markdown-and-buttons-in-form/21390>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [October 21, 2014, 10:36pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/disable-markdown-and-buttons-in-form/21390 "2014-10-21T22:36:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![cpradio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/cpradio/32/4970_2.png) [@cpradio](https://meta.discourse.org/u/cpradio)\
**Post date:** [November 5, 2014, 3:40pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/disable-markdown-and-buttons-in-form/21390/9 "2014-11-05T15:40:18Z")

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You can’t do that via CSS. Markdown has nothing to do with CSS. I’m not sure why you’d want to do this to begin with. Why do you not want your users to format their content with markdown?

Are you afraid they’ll abuse it? Not know how to use it?

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