Howto display source code of markdown files?

[fhgd]

When I browse through the file tree of my repo I find some markdown files (*.md). And when I click on it they are rendered (bold head lines, nice bullet lists, and so on...) which is nice for the most cases.

But in my case I just want to see the plain source code of the *.md file. How can I switch?

[khmarbaise]

usually in the upper area there are shown links "Raw Permalink Blame History" just use RAW than you see the source code of the markdown file.

[fhgd]

Unfortunately, no. For example, on

https://gitea.com/gitea/tea/src/branch/master/CHANGELOG.md

you see the rendered md-file which is nice. But when you click on the first raw-button you get nearly the same rendered result and not the source code of the md-file.

The only work-around for the source code is the blame-button but it could be hard to read.

[khmarbaise]

I see in your example in the line "3.4 KiB" going to the right those links see the image Raw Permalink Blame History

Maybe you have turned off Javascript etc. ?

[khmarbaise]

I checked the output of the "Raw" link and I get correctly the source code of the markdown file?... Maybe you have installed a markdown plugin in your browser?

[fhgd]

Oh, you are right - when I deactivated the markdown add-on I get the same raw output as you. Many thanks for that advice!

Nonetheless, I would like to propose an extra source-code-button next to the raw-button which displays the file with line numbers and syntax highlighting. Is there an existing configuration option for that or is it a new feature request?

[lunny]

For those files who can be rendered, it will be rendered when you visit the file. For other text files, it will be a highlight code review. So I think it's may useful sometimes to view a hightlight code of the markdown file.

@jolheiser I think this should be a proposal but not a question. I will change that.

[silverwind]

Essentiall this needs a rendered/source view, similar to SVG files which also suffer from this issue.

[wxiaoguang]

Fixed by

• Add logic to switch between source/rendered on Markdown #19356