Title: Markdown wierdness?
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Markdown wierdness?

 *  [dozer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dozer/)
 * (@dozer)
 * [21 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/markdown-wierdness/)
 * Some wierd stuff is happening with markdown. I have two different versions running
   in two different blogs. One is the version which ships with WP 1.2 and the other
   one is version1.0 by Micheal F. There are several things don’t work according
   to the documentation I’ve read here:
    [http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax](http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax)
   let’s start with the first one. it says I should be able to create a <hr> by 
   typing a line on its own like this *** or * * * or — or – – – or ___ or _ _ _
   this however generates html like this: `_*_ ` which I can understand, it is taking
   the * as emphasis. Am I looking at the right documentation? Should I be able 
   to generate an hr with the above code? thanks.

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 *  Anonymous
 * [21 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/markdown-wierdness/#post-107838)
 * Did you try the latest version of PHP Mardown available here:
    <[http://www.michelf.com/projects/php-markdown/&gt](http://www.michelf.com/projects/php-markdown/&gt);
   The version that ships with WP 1.2 is very outdated now. (WP 1.3 will have PHP
   Markdown 1.0).
 *  Thread Starter [dozer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dozer/)
 * (@dozer)
 * [21 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/markdown-wierdness/#post-107950)
 * Yes, I had even worse problems with the old version. I have the new version. 
   Still: several things don’t work. Am I doing something wrong, is it a problem
   with Markdown, or is the documentation wrong?
 *  6855
 * [21 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/markdown-wierdness/#post-107989)
 * I just found that putting two or three spaces before `***` does exactly what 
   you describe. I think this is a bug.
    Until it is corrected, I suggest you try
   removing any spaces before on the same line.
 *  [carthik](https://wordpress.org/support/users/carthik/)
 * (@carthik)
 * [21 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/markdown-wierdness/#post-108009)
 * You can also file a [bug report](http://mosquito.wordpress.org)
 *  Thread Starter [dozer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dozer/)
 * (@dozer)
 * [21 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/markdown-wierdness/#post-108239)
 * OK, the thing that was throwing me off is I was using spaces after the characters.‘***
   ^^<cr>’ where ^ is a space will not produce a rule. I left a bug report just 
   now as 2fargon suggested. thanks.

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 * Last activity: [21 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/markdown-wierdness/#post-108239)
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