# Should bold span multiple lines?

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/should-bold-span-multiple-lines/17667
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [July 17, 2014, 2:49am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/should-bold-span-multiple-lines/17667 "2014-07-17T02:49:51Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author: ![tuananh](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/tuananh/32/33428_2.png) [@tuananh](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tuananh)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2014, 2:49am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/should-bold-span-multiple-lines/17667/1 "2014-07-17T02:49:52Z")

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```
**line1 line 1 line 1 
line2 line2**

```

this suppose to render a bold line but doesn’t

**line1 line 1 line 1  
line2 line2**

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### Author: ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2014, 3:02am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/should-bold-span-multiple-lines/17667/2 "2014-07-17T03:02:44Z")

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I don’t know if I consider this a bug.

\*\*test

test\*\*

```plaintext
**test

test**

```

We have an extension that injects newlines, that can be disabled by admins, it seems consistent for it to break formatting.

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### Author: ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2014, 3:19am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/should-bold-span-multiple-lines/17667/3 "2014-07-17T03:19:19Z")

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Definitely would not consider that a bug.

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### Author: ![tuananh](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/tuananh/32/33428_2.png) [@tuananh](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tuananh)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2014, 10:25am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/should-bold-span-multiple-lines/17667/4 "2014-07-17T10:25:43Z")

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I thought it used to work like that before!?

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### Author: ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2014, 11:38am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/should-bold-span-multiple-lines/17667/5 "2014-07-17T11:38:24Z")

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Possible, we fixed lots of bugs in the markdown parser in past few weeks 🙂

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### Author: ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [December 24, 2014, 7:17am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/should-bold-span-multiple-lines/17667/6 "2014-12-24T07:17:24Z")

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