# HTML stripped from content when watch/replace, but not when written directly

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**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [April 4, 2022, 11:36am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/html-stripped-from-content-when-watch-replace-but-not-when-written-directly/223125 "2022-04-04T11:36:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![david](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/david/32/157490_2.png) [@david](https://meta.discourse.org/u/david)\
**Post date:** [April 4, 2022, 11:58am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/html-stripped-from-content-when-watch-replace-but-not-when-written-directly/223125/2 "2022-04-04T11:58:27Z")

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I’m not sure watched words was designed to handle HTML… although you’re right that the inconsistency is a little weird.

As a workaround, instead of `<sub>2</sub>`, you could use a unicode subscript two: VO₂max. I suspect that will work much more reliably.

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