Question

I’ve just recently begun to use markdown and have noticed that any markdown within the html ‘figure’ element simply prints out. So images merely print out the path rather than actually load.

Has anyone else encountered this?

Trying:

<figure>
  ![The Noun Project](https://s3.amazonaws.com/benjamincharity.com/16022011-the-noun-project.jpg)
  <figcaption>The Noun Project</figcaption>
</figure>

But it merely prints out the code. Like markdown won’t render within Markdown.

Edit: (more info)

My apologies concerning the lack of info. Very new to Ruby and Markdown. I am using ‘Rdiscount’. I noticed today in the docs here that printing out the html might be a setting? Also it looks like markdown is printing inside of any HTML element; not only figure as I first thought.

My error:

This:

## So we went to work:

<div class="image">
  <figure>
    ![The u-oh.me home page](https://s3.amazonaws.com/benjamincharity.com/u-oh.me-1.jpg)
    <figcaption>The u-oh.me home page</figcaption>
  </figure>
</div>

Simply prints like this:

So we went to work:

The u-oh.me home page

Answer 1

The Markdown specification dictates that anything between block-level tags gets rendered verbatim rather than parsed as Markdown

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.

http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax#html