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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: [תמונה] 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) 20 ביוני,‏ 2018,‏ 3:19am 6

closing this as … by design and covered at:

נושא		תגובות	צפיות
Suggest users to use code block when pasting code snippet Support	3	90	21 במאי,‏ 2025
Easy way to change preformatted text (code) button? Feature	41	15467	27 ביוני,‏ 2016
Users pasting unformatted code results in unwanted styles Support	10	2172	28 ביוני,‏ 2021
Disable Code Formatting for inappropriate 4 space indent? Feature	10	1598	17 בינואר,‏ 2020
Posting code or preformatted text Using Discourse how-to	2	5657	8 באוקטובר,‏ 2025

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