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This is by design, and how Markdown works… put it in a code block unless you want it to be interpreted as illegal non-whitelisted html.

Though I expected this behavior, I would like to have a small warning during posting like this: ‘Your message contains a code, consider to put it in a code block using triple back quotes (unless …)’ :slight_smile:

This is a pretty enormous problem. I do not see Discourse core adding such a feature for “automatic code block missing” warning. Not sure if even Stack Overflow do this. But … it is an interesting idea for a plugin, which would have to use some very fancy regex mountain or a custom parser of sorts. …

This has been covered at EXTREME length in other topics about “auto detecting code when a user can’t figure out how to properly format code” And yes SO does do this, because the cost of not doing it on a site about programming was super high.

closing this as … by design and covered at: [image] Easy way to change preformatted text (code) button? feature On forums that are pretty software intensive, i.e., people posting lots of code… the preformatted text ctrl+k thing doesn’t cut it. I’m constantly having to ed…

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sam (Sam Saffron) June 20, 2018, 3:19am 6

closing this as … by design and covered at:

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Suggest users to use code block when pasting code snippet Support	3	84	May 21, 2025
Easy way to change preformatted text (code) button? Feature	41	15466	June 27, 2016
Users pasting unformatted code results in unwanted styles Support	10	2167	June 28, 2021
Disable Code Formatting for inappropriate 4 space indent? Feature	10	1597	January 17, 2020
Posting code or preformatted text Using Discourse how-to	2	5643	October 8, 2025

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