Bug in Stack Exchange Code Snippet [duplicate]

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I found a bug today in Stack Exchange's Code Snippet. Kindly check this. While inserting code snippet, this happens:

Please try to solve this.

Note: I am not exactly sure how to recreate. It just happened. I happened to see few just recently. I will surely explain, if I get a chance to replicate.

Reference Post: https://stackoverflow.com/a/34615823/462627

• Kevin B: Looks like you may have tried to insert a code snippet into an existing code block (which of course won't work properly.) Fixing it should be relatively easy, just un-indent the code snippet back to the root.
• Praveen Kumar Purushothaman: @KevinB Woah.... This happened not just for me. I keep seeing it more often in the past one hour.
• Kevin B: Can you provide steps to recreate the issue? seems to work just fine for me.
• Praveen Kumar Purushothaman: @KevinB I am not exactly sure how to recreate. It just happened. I happened to see few just recently. I will surely explain, if I get a chance to replicate.
• Kevin B: Then it likely isn't a bug, and is instead someone messing with the snippet after posting it in such a way that breaks it.
• Praveen Kumar Purushothaman: @KevinB This happened in my answer too. I just removed that line. If I am inserting a snippet inside another snippet, then how it shows only for the JS? And not for HTML and CSS? Weird.
• Thaillie: @PraveenKumar What exactly is happening this comment just made it more confusing, what does it add and what doesn't it add? And are you trying to create a snippet in a snippet?
• Praveen Kumar Purushothaman: @Thaillie No. I am not sure. I am definitely not trying to create a snippet in snippet. But what happened was, when I kinda feel this happened during the edit snippet phase.
• user152859: I tend to agree with @Kevin - the snippets are quite delicate, so likely a misplaced edit broke them. Just be careful when editing the raw code.
• Praveen Kumar Purushothaman: It is not just with me. There are two other posts had this. Then now I feel I am not doing any mistake.
• user152859: Post links and we'll see.
• Praveen Kumar Purushothaman: Sure... Posting it.
• Praveen Kumar Purushothaman: @ShadowWizard stackoverflow.com/a/34615823/462627
• Kevin B: In that example, <!-- begin snippet: js hide: false --> is indented, thus making it part of the css code block.
• Kevin B: No matter what i do i can't get it to insert that js snippet start comment.

Answer 1

test code block

test code snippet

seems to work fine for me. However, I can forcibly recreate the issue by indenting the begin snippet comment and removing the end snippet comment.

test code block
<!-- begin snippet: js hide: false -->

test code snippet

I wouldn't call this a bug, just incorrect usage of the code snippet tool. There's really nothing to fix.

• Praveen Kumar Purushothaman: Oh yeah.. How did you even do this? I didn't do the indenting the begin snippet comment and removing the end snippet comment.
• Kevin B: I indented the begin snippet comment so it would be considered as part of the first code block, then removed the end snippet comment so that the snippet code wouldn't recognize it as a code snippet.
• Praveen Kumar Purushothaman: I didn't do the indenting the begin snippet comment and removing the end snippet comment.
• Kevin B: the snippet tool doesn't do that either. The code block tool would do the indentation, but it wouldn't remove the end snippet comment.