No Markdown in <div>s or <table>s ?

[Dan Dascalescu]

On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 14:01, Sherwood Botsford <sgbotsford at gmail.com> wrote:

> Here's an example of why I set the flag off


This flag was...? I gather the entire post was good advocacy for setting
markdown_in_html_blocks => 1


> I'm sure there are situations where you DONT want markdown to process

> what is inside block tags -- mostly stuff talking about markdown, near

> as I can figure,


That should go in a <pre><code>, and indeed <pre> blocks should be
holy and untouched, for they can contain random stuff from whatever
programming language that would confuse Markdown.


> but I bet the number of people who actually need

> "ignore contents of block tags" are a small minority.


Completely agree with that. <div>s don't mean anything. Why should
they mean something to Markdown?


> Now if I could just figure out how to keep markdown from wrapping

> block tags in <p>'s


GitHub encountered the same problem and came up with
http://github.github.com/github-flavored-markdown/

Dan