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Obsidian Flavored Markdown
Obsidian strives for maximum capability without breaking any existing formats. As a result, we use a combination of flavors of Markdown.
Obsidian supports CommonMark, GitHub Flavored Markdown, and LaTeX.
Markdown inside HTML
Obsidian does not render Markdown syntax inside HTML elements. This is an intentional design choice for performance optimization and to keep parser complexity low when managing large documents.
For example, Markdown formatting like **bold** or `code` will not be processed inside <div>, <span>, <table>, or any other HTML tags.
<div>
This **will not** be bold.
</div>
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Supported Markdown extensions
See also
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