Turn off text format codes

Feature Discussion
1

How can I stop DevHub from italicizing text because it has underscores (_) in it? Please. I’m actually begging. I’ll do anything. I will pay you. I don’t even understand how this is a thing for technical documentation.

2

It looks like turning off live markdown on my account settings has fixed the issue, but I needed to refresh the browser for this to take effect.

3

Hey @Chris_Pitzer,

Welcome to the community forum.

I understand that using underscores in text is confusing. This is because the markdown notation for italic is surrounding text by underscores.

On DeveloperHub, any text that contains underscores should be placed in inline code, since anyway it usually is not “usual text”.

For example, if the text was “hello_beautiful_world”, to write that with markdown enabled:

  1. Write hello_beautiful
  2. Highlight hello_beautiful and set it as inline code
  3. Continue typing inside the inline code “_world”.

Similarily, you can do it by:

  1. Write `hello_beautiful`. This will create inline code automatically.
  2. Move cursor inside the inline code, and continue typing “_world”.

italic_text

If markdown was disabled from account settings as you mentioned, you can do it directly by typing:
`hello_beautiful_world`

Note that if you do not enclose the text within inline code, upon saving and refreshing the page, it will still render italicised regardless if you have disabled instant markdown rendering or not - because eventually, underscores denote italics unless it is inside inline code.

Let me know if you need further help.