# How to fix formatting issues? - markdown badly migrated to HTML

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**Category:** Migration\
**Tags:** flarum\
**Created:** [March 29, 2024, 1:19pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-fix-formatting-issues-markdown-badly-migrated-to-html/301493 "2024-03-29T13:19:35Z")\
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**Author:** ![MartinC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/martinc/32/374731_2.png) [@MartinC](https://meta.discourse.org/u/MartinC)\
**Post date:** [March 29, 2024, 1:19pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-fix-formatting-issues-markdown-badly-migrated-to-html/301493/1 "2024-03-29T13:19:35Z")

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We managed to migrate from [flarum.amybo.org](http://flarum.amybo.org) to discourse [forum.amybo.org](http://forum.amybo.org) but the forum is now riddled with formatting issues. For example:

```plaintext
@"Gerrit"#p174 I like the idea of a water based liquid (just like Rabaey's) so I checked out the [Nutrisorb Trace Minerals](https://www.biocare.co.uk/nutrisorbr-liquid-trace-minerals-15ml) ingredients:
1. Purified Water, 
2. Sodium Borate, 
3. Preservative (Citric Acid), 

```

Becomes:

 ![Screenshot 2024-03-29 at 13.06.21](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/8/9/b/89b4f662f95239f85b834fde52f2286ac5a76949.png)

```plaintext
<r><p><POSTMENTION discussionid="25" displayname="Gerrit" id="174" number="8">@"Gerrit"#p174</POSTMENTION> I like the idea of a water based liquid (just like Rabaey's) so I checked out the <URL url="https://www.biocare.co.uk/nutrisorbr-liquid-trace-minerals-15ml"><s>[</s>Nutrisorb Trace Minerals<e>](https://www.biocare.co.uk/nutrisorbr-liquid-trace-minerals-15ml)</e></URL> ingredients:</p>
<LIST type="decimal"><LI><s>1. </s>Purified Water, </LI>
<LI><s>2. </s>Sodium Borate, </LI>
<LI><s>3. </s>Preservative (Citric Acid), </LI>

```

Is there a recommended way to fix these?

It would be amazing if it could be automated across the whole forum (without showing each post as edited), but, if not, then a semi-automated fix that we could apply post by post would be better than needing to manually remove each HTML tag to revert to markdown.

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