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		bobmaxup on Nov 11, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: We should have Markdown-rendered websites Flavors of Markdown might be a superset, but as it is normally used, I don't think many would say that Markdown has all the abilities of HTML.

evv on Nov 11, 2022 | [–]

The original Markdown spec is very clear that HTML is allowed. So MD itself is absolutely a superset of HTML

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

But in practice people mostly use MD variants, such as the "GitHub Flavored Markdown Spec" which may have some limits on HTML usage

https://github.github.com/gfm/#html-blocks

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