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Life & fun · April 10, 2015

CSS to render Markdown as unrendered Markdown

Render Markdown as unrendered Markdown (see http://jsbin.com/huwosomawo) - markdown.css

CSS to render Markdown as unrendered Markdown launched on April 10, 2015 with 161 votes, #146 of 3,600 launches that month and more than 95% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 11 years on.

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In plain words

CSS to render Markdown as unrendered Markdown is a stylesheet that displays Markdown source code in its original unrendered format rather than converting it to HTML. It is for developers and writers who want to view or share Markdown syntax visually while preserving its raw appearance. The tool uses CSS styling to show Markdown elements like ordered lists and formatting markers as plain text, making it useful for documentation and code sharing purposes.

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From the sources

@cash2m @jbrooksuk incrementing is nice but I prefer to use 0. for ordered lists. It makes it so much easier to insert a line somewhere without messing up the markup. The number doesn't matter anyway, it just has to be [0-9]+\. Worked on something similar a while back but never used it for anything: https://gist.github.com/pluma/6b51b2601ddea34d5abf Of course, this doesn't actually reverse the (lossy) Markdown transformation. For example, the source 9. turns into an ordered list that looks like "1." and CSS won't reverse that. (I see this problem on reddit all the time.) Very cool ... now to find a place to implement/integrate this! I did something similar a few years ago and updated it…from gist.github.com

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