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A while ago (several weeks I think), code blocks in SO posts gained a corner "Copy" icon, which is fine, but the entire vertical span of that icon is now unused across the horizontal span of ...
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Code blocks now have a header with a language tag and a Copy button. While this feature probably addresses a very old request, it poses multiple problems: the copy button is only useful for very long ...
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(Cross-posted as a bug report to MSE which lists all affected languages found thus far. Please go there to see if a language you've observed being labeled incorrectly is included in the table) I just ...
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As one of your newest moderators, I've been handling a bunch of not-an-answer flags. One NAA flag was for this answer: The flag comment said that the link was broken. When reviewing the flag, I: ...
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I have been staunch in my opinion of Posting images of code I will 100% of the time either downvote the question or flag to be closed. My question is, am I being too rigid? We've given plenty of ...
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I wanted to post a question on Stack Overflow. I tried posting a code with its error. But, it showed some indentation error in code. I was not able to find any {} above to resolve the problem. ...
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I was wondering why would users have that weird backslashes when pasting code. Now I noticed that this is a persisting issue1, 2, 3. Why hasn't this been solved yet? See here. I've edited several ...
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I have a question about my Stack Overflow post: Why are margins not working in my HTML file and how can I fix that? I have a problem with my HTML file, but I can't figure out how I should ask about it....
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Tl;Dr: As of November 2022, is Google still the best option to search for posts including specific code methods? I'm trying to find questions with code generated by the Google Sheets Macro Recorder. ...
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I edited this answer on Stack Overflow and improved its format, so it's easier to read and conforms to Python best style/format practices. Is it a good edit or not? It used to look like this return ...
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I've noticed that lately strange backslashes are appearing more and more frequently in edited code. Here is another example. Is this a user failure or a bug in the site's code rendering?
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For the past couple of days, it seems that when users paste code into their questions, but don't put it into a proper code block, many punctuation characters are being automatically escaped with ...
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Context: "How to call a method from a class referenced as a string?" More general context: how do we educate occasional users, or new users, to the best practices to follow when posting a ...
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I answered a question (since closed: "This question needs debugging details. It is not currently accepting answers," and deleted) a little while ago, and it really is a good answer, because ...
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Similar questions I have checked some previous questions/answers like this one: Highlight Line of Code But I did not like the answer and this can be troublesome. Proposal Let's say I post a big (but ...
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I am editing one of my questions on Stack Overflow. It raises an error: Your post appears to contain code that is not properly formatted as code. After some digging, I find it is about this text: (Do ...
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I've already read main question on this topic, When should I make edits to code? and this one too, still I'm not sure what to do with this edit suggestion: https://stackoverflow.com/review/suggested-...
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Per another Meta it came to our attention that there was a user posting potentially malicious code. There's no real rule about that, but, for unrelated reasons of moderation, the account that posted ...
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In this post: How to identify html tags in html string The language is not being recognized, the first string inside the quotes and the comments are all off. When I try to answer, the same strange ...
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For example, given the following code snippet, how does one edit the question or answer and open the existing example inside the code editor again? console.log('example') h1 { color: deeppink; }...
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I just got the privilege to edit or review questions and answers. Now I'm faced with the question: what flag is the right one, when the question includes too much code? Surely Needs author edit, but ...
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Suppose I have a code block like this contrived pseudocode: ``` Here { is } my code ``` When I select the whole block including the backticks and then use try to blockquote it using the button or ...
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I am gradually starting to learn all the publishing rules in Stack Overflow. I understood that it was necessary to publish as much explanation as possible by publishing this code without putting only ...
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I find myself typing this phrase multiple times a day. A shortcut that led directly to the FAQ explanation would be really helpful.
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From the licensing page: Content contributed on or after 2018-05-02 (UTC) is distributed under the terms of CC BY-SA 4.0. When I looked on the Creative-Commons page describing the license, I found ...
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I have been using code fences to highlight my code in SO ```javascript ``` Recently I have noted that my code is being edited and the below syntax is being used <!-- lang-js --> I have seen ...
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Why are tabs replaced by spaces in the output when I type them inside of code fences? Here I used tabs: int func() { somecode; } But you see spaces.
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I'm new to programming and have been using stackOverflow and github only for the last 5 days. I have a couple of observations. Would it be worthwhile if, SO/gitHub adminstrators enforce strict code ...
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When a user is asking a question SO has many ways of making sure the question is at high quality, SO has many guides and rules to make a good question and they are doing the job well. I would like to ...
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Related - but not a duplicate: Please remove scrollbar-width: thin from code blocks AND fix the missing ends In Firefox: if (at the very least) the last character before a code block and the first ...
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No matter how much we discourage it, posters frequently write questions with all the code in an image that they link to. I personally don't think this should be a reason to close the questions -- if ...
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Horizontal scrolling of code blocks is a thing to say the least. foo bar baz buzz foo bar baz buzz foo bar baz buzz foo bar baz buzz foo bar baz buzz foo bar baz buzz foo bar baz buzz foo bar baz ...
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When using the code format sometimes the color isn't correct. For example, in this question the word CPerson Blue is blue instead of Black: And the set is Blue, and get is Black: This is a screenshot ...
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For a while I have been contributing to Stack Overflow with PowerShell questions and answers. In here I am seeing a lot of questions with code examples that could be automatically resolved (or ...
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As far as I am aware, if someone asks a question and pastes a link to websites like JSFiddle, JSBin, or CodePen, they get prompted to put code in the question itself. Lately I've been seeing links to ...
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When a post that contains code is edited and I click on the "An edit has been made to this post" link above it, I can see the edited post, but the code will not be highlighted unless I refresh the ...
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I have tried everything from using '```python' to indenting myself. The code which I want to upload does get highlighted in grey when I use the above methods but the syntax doesn't get highlighted. ...
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In https://stackoverflow.com/a/56874892/1491895, @Dharman posted the following comment: It is a very bad idea to use die(mysqli_error($conn)); in your code, because it could potentially leak ...
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I have a piece of code after a list in a question. It is not getting syntax highlighted, even if I use SO code block, or indent it myself. If I move it before the list, it works as expected. Also, ...
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I've been following this "When should code formatting be used for non-code text? " post for guidance on removing backticks when reviewing suggested edits as well as when forming my own questions and ...
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During answering this question another answer was posted and when I studied it, I saw that the user has deleted some lines of code so the code may properly work. Are we allowed to change the given ...
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This is related to Should I review questions with images of code as "looks ok" or "requires editing"?, but for Low Quality Posts, which I consider a different situation than Triage....
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Has it ever been considered to colorize the code in a post which is tagged with asp.net, asp.net-mvc, etc. like the tag c#? (Sorry if this is posted earlier, but I couldn't find anything about this.)
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As you hopefully know, in a few weeks, EU Parliament will vote for new copyright laws. These new laws/directives (especially its most controversial component, Article 13) (Julia Reda shared the ...
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I am a little confused with the new update of Stack Overflow, particularly on using the regular JavaScript/CSS/HTML code snippets we used to have to write our questions. Now the new update made it ...
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For instance, I am Dutch and most of the time is I use Dutch words to declare variables. for smaller lines of code it's easy to translate, but is it something you should always do? Is the question ...
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When I have a time, I really like to help people on Stack Overflow. Questions I'm reading are mostly created by new users or others that did not ask much questions in a past. Those questions are ...
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This question keeps coming up every here at meta and it gets positive responses. Yet it has not been implemented yet. Why?! Using a phone and copy pasting a code block is a true nightmare! Sometimes ...
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Is there a preferred style on this site, where to put explanations of the code one posted? Should it be done like this: Some explanation above if (x != y) //do something or like this: if (x !=...
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I just observed that when I post a comment containing a piece of code, the code is not colored as it is in answers and questions. Here is a screenshot: In the above screenshot, I just posted a ...
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