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If anyone wonders like I did what markdown magic could've made the collapsible "Details" sections in the second comment, it's actually standard HTML5 - https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/de...

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How do you use github flavoured markdown to embed <details> tags - surely you can't just use the html tags? Isn't that the whole point of markdown - to limit users html input so there aren't any security escalations?

It is not the point of markdown, in fact any html tag is valid in markdown if you read the original description [1].

Github does strip some tags for security reasons like <script>. Some of the parsers I have seen offer this feature.

1: https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax#html

Thank you, I was really wondering if github is collapsing too long code snippets on mobile.

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