Editing markdown field extra backslashes

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Hello,

I have problems when editing markdown fields, after saving I’m getting extra backslashes which broke formatting. Copy/paste from “show markup” helps in some cases but generally editing content in few places is very difficult.

Also getting some html tags are deleted from content when saving.

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Can you give me concrete examples?

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For example, markup:

<span style="display:flex; justify-content:center; gap:0 80px;">  
https://zzz.xxx/api/content/yyy/cta-element/851b30dd-09a3-4b91-845c-6ae9397317fb

https://zzz.xxx/api/content/yyy/cta-element/b0617e27-b25d-4604-bd24-380fd4e7ee8a

</span>

after saving show as:

<span style="display:flex; justify-content:center; gap:0 80px;">  
\[\[https://zzz.xxx/api/content/yyy/cta-element/851b30dd-09a3-4b91-845c-6ae9397317fb\]\]

\[\[https://zzz.xxx/api/content/yyy/cta-element/b0617e27-b25d-4604-bd24-380fd4e7ee8a\]\]

</span>
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I am confused. This is not markdown.

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It’s a preview with “Show Markup (readonly)”, extra backslashes are there visible.

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I still have no idea what you are talking about, sorry. If you can give me a reproducible step-by-step list I would appreciate it.

Your markup is not markdown, therefore I am super confused.

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Ok, searched information about markdown and found this:

Note that Markdown formatting syntax is not processed within block-level HTML tags. E.g., you can’t use Markdown-style emphasis inside an HTML block.

But it is explicitly allowed for span-level tags:

Unlike block-level HTML tags, Markdown syntax is processed within span-level tags.

Problem was that I needed to extra format some markdown and wrapped it with div element, that causes the problems.

Greetings.

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