Markdown formatting with inline code spans using backticks

[segevfiner]

This doesn't currently work:

flowchart TD
    A --> B["`This is a `foobar``"]

Is there any syntax to be able to use backticks inside Markdown formatted text in the flowchart diagram type?

[knsv]

😱

Sorry ... not without some changes

[sidharthv96]

We only support italics and bold for now.

[RokeJulianLockhart]

#discussion-5360148

@segevfiner, I expect that this would break stackoverflow.com/revisions/75978908/2 (see #5319 (comment)).

[Piratepie]

There is a way to use backticks inside of markdown. The only way to do so is to use entity codes.

The drawback, it'll render as just a backtick, so no pretty code markdown like this.

Here's me updating your example:

flowchart TD
    A --> B["`This is a #96;foobar#96;`"]

Which will look like this in the mermaid editor (doesn't seem to work on GitHub)

[RokeJulianLockhart]

#discussioncomment-8593317

Yeah, @Piratepie, that's gotta be, since Mermaid doesn't allow strings to be delimited by `` instead of `. If it did, it would permit the standard workaround of meta.stackexchange.com/revisions/82722/8 to work.

[phil294]

You can already write <code>...</code>, this works well - unless you write https:// in the inline code, then you'll get Unsupported markdown: link, in which case you can use : instead of :. The former is U+A789 ꞉ MODIFIER LETTER COLON, the latter U+003A : COLON.

[RokeJulianLockhart]

@phil294, can a semantic COLON not be escaped? Needing to use unsemantic replacements that, may not appear equivalent based upon typeface, is not desirable, for the sake of screen readers.

[phil294]

I don't know, you tell me. I'm not a mermaid contributor.

[RokeJulianLockhart]

@phil294, nor am I. If I knew, I wouldn't need to ask. 😔