Issues

• Markdown syntax highlighter: mismatched brackets in code blocks in hyperlinks

  microsoft/vscode-markdown-tm-grammar#206 · Filter by author Lysxia opened on Oct 7, 2026
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• Shortcut reference links incorrectly disallow whitespace

  microsoft/vscode-markdown-tm-grammar#195 · Filter by author stephenlrandall opened on Jul 24, 2026

• Markdown editor: Bold formatting not rendered when HTML tag starts the line

  microsoft/vscode-markdown-tm-grammar#180 · Filter by author piknockyou opened on Aug 21, 2025
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• Unsupported builtin languages inside code blocks

  microsoft/vscode-markdown-tm-grammar#177 · Filter by author remcohaszing opened on Jul 28, 2025

• [Bug] Syntax highlight breaks inside CommonMark list syntax (1.s) when surrounding render-unaffective indentation is not 0.

  bug
  microsoft/vscode-markdown-tm-grammar#172 · Filter by author beedell-roke opened on May 2, 2025
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• Markdown syntax of emphasize highlighting mismatch with preview

  microsoft/vscode-markdown-tm-grammar#171 · Filter by author misaka4a92 opened on Feb 19, 2025
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• Markdown comments not highlighted correctly

  bug
  microsoft/vscode-markdown-tm-grammar#167 · Filter by author thomas-philips opened on Oct 18, 2024
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• (shell) indented multi-line command (using backslash, line continuation \) every 2nd line only

  microsoft/vscode-markdown-tm-grammar#166 · Filter by author needleshaped opened on Oct 15, 2024

• Support MkDocs fenced codeblock attributes and dot prefixed language

  microsoft/vscode-markdown-tm-grammar#153 · Filter by author reenberg opened on Dec 20, 2023
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• Script tag fails to highlight as JS if contents start with $

  microsoft/vscode-markdown-tm-grammar#148 · Filter by author francislavoie opened on Sep 7, 2023
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• Support scopes for code fence attributes

  microsoft/vscode-markdown-tm-grammar#145 · Filter by author michaeltlombardi opened on Aug 25, 2023
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• Support highlighting of markdown tables

  microsoft/vscode-markdown-tm-grammar#125 · Filter by author mjbvz opened on Dec 5, 2022

• Feature request: consistant action as in RMarkdown

  feature-request
  microsoft/vscode-markdown-tm-grammar#119 · Filter by author Hocnonsense opened on Sep 2, 2022 · Backlog

• Syntax highlighting broken for markdown links that span multiple lines

  bughelp wanted
  microsoft/vscode-markdown-tm-grammar#120 · Filter by author wolf99 opened on Aug 1, 2022 · Backlog
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• Asterisks * within square brackets [] within C code blocks breaks italics and coloring

  bug
  microsoft/vscode-markdown-tm-grammar#105 · Filter by author rubyleehs opened on Mar 15, 2022 · Backlog
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• Missed raw code block parsing

  bughelp wanted
  microsoft/vscode-markdown-tm-grammar#89 · Filter by author tejasvi opened on Jun 11, 2021 · Backlog

• Inconsistent syntax highlighting for markdown footnotes

  bug
  microsoft/vscode-markdown-tm-grammar#87 · Filter by author d0rf3n opened on May 5, 2021 · Backlog
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• Markdown highlighting not working directly after an HTML tag

  bughelp wanted
  microsoft/vscode-markdown-tm-grammar#85 · Filter by author MangelMaxime opened on Dec 17, 2020 · Backlog
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• Markdown syntax highlighter colors svg elements red

  bughelp wanted
  microsoft/vscode-markdown-tm-grammar#70 · Filter by author shskwmt opened on Apr 2, 2020 · Backlog
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• markdown syntax highlighting doesn't combine bold + italic

  bug
  microsoft/vscode-markdown-tm-grammar#69 · Filter by author gmccullo opened on Mar 13, 2020 · Backlog
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• BlockQuote while condition is incorrect, scoping doesn't match preview or GitHub

  bughelp wanted
  microsoft/vscode-markdown-tm-grammar#56 · Filter by author msftrncs opened on Aug 26, 2019 · Backlog
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• Go variable declarations are not rendered correctly in Markdown

  bug
  microsoft/vscode-markdown-tm-grammar#61 · Filter by author ditek opened on Dec 17, 2018 · Backlog
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• Italics not applied to word with underscores in it

  bughelp wanted
  microsoft/vscode-markdown-tm-grammar#45 · Filter by author chesio opened on Dec 6, 2018 · Backlog
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• Blocks (code, strong, emphasis) do not capture over new line

  bug
  microsoft/vscode-markdown-tm-grammar#36 · Filter by author maccoda opened on Oct 23, 2018 · Backlog
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• Problems rendering adjacent bold and italics

  buggrammarhelp wantedlanguages basicmarkdown
  microsoft/vscode-markdown-tm-grammar#7 · Filter by author mjbvz opened on Feb 9, 2018 · Backlog
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