# Discourse doesn't follow the CommonMark spec for HTML \<pre\> tags inside code spans

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-doesnt-follow-the-commonmark-spec-for-html-pre-tags-inside-code-spans/25406>\
**Category:** Bug\
**Tags:** markdown-it-review\
**Created:** [19 Febbraio 2015, 3:46pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-doesnt-follow-the-commonmark-spec-for-html-pre-tags-inside-code-spans/25406 "2015-02-19T15:46:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![eviltrout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/eviltrout/32/5275_2.png) [@eviltrout](https://meta.discourse.org/u/eviltrout)\
**Post date:** [19 Febbraio 2015, 3:50pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-doesnt-follow-the-commonmark-spec-for-html-pre-tags-inside-code-spans/25406/4 "2015-02-19T15:50:50Z")

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Discourse isn’t on CommonMark yet. It does pass MDTest 1.2 though.

edit: This might still be a bug though that isn’t CM specific, will look into it!

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