Jekyll behaving badly
I use a combination of things to build this blog. I write the posts in markdown and then use jekyll and github pages to publish. I recently encountered an issue I suspect may be a bug that occurs when jekyll parses markdown to html.
Here’s the markdown. I’m using some html to color specific words:
Write some stuff here. Then I continue on and want to add some colorful font on a new line:
<font color = '#FFD441'>This </font>should work<font color = '#584CD5'> just</font> <font color = '#FFB441'>fine</font>.
and here’s the jekyll parse:
Write some stuff here. Then I continue on and want to add some colorful font on a new line:
<font color = '#FFD441'>This </font>
<p>should work<font color = '#584CD5'> just</font> <font color = '#FFB441'>fine</font>.</p>
The words get colored fine, but I get this weird extra <p> tag, which means that it gets rendered like this:
should work just fine.
My solution, after much fiddling, was to add a <br> to the previous line and remove the extra blank line in between:
Write some stuff here. Then I continue on and want to add some colorful font on a new line:<br>
<font color = '#FFD441'>This </font>should work<font color = '#584CD5'> just</font> <font color = '#FFB441'>fine</font>.
That worked out okay, but isn’t ideal. Anyone got any insights on this one?
Written on November 7, 2014