Code blocks appear as (underlined) links

[miraculixx]

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For some reason code blocks in restructuredtext-formatted README.rst files started to appear as underlined links recently:

This can be switched off by changing to "Hide link underlines" in settings > accessibility > content. However imho this is not accessibility question, but an issue with the generation of the respective code block's html, that is not every line should be rendered inside an <a> tag, as lines of codes are not links.

For reference, the respective code block is valid RST (source). Other README.rst in other repositories have the same issue, e.g. Sphinx,

.. code:: python

      $ pip install minibatch
      $ docker run -d -p 27017:27017 mongo

[vickkie]

Hello @miraculixx

• instead of using .. code:: python
• try to use quotations like ``````
• 3 infront --message inside -- 3 after

This way

1. Install and setup

      pip install minibatch
      docker run -d -p 27017:27017 mongo
   

-   See extras & optional dependencies below to select specific packages according
 to your deployment needs, e.g. for MQTT, Kafka, omega|ml

[smheidrich]

That's for Markdown files. This is about reStructuredText (RST) files, where ``` is meaningless.

[vickkie]

ooh okay i get it

• You could try using the .. code:: directive without specifying a language to see if it will workaround the issue

 .. code::

    $ pip install minibatch
    $ docker run -d -p 27017:27017 mongo

[miraculixx]

Thanks. However my point is it used to work as in my OP, and it still should as afaik it is the official RST syntax for code blocks.

[vickkie]

Yeah the RST syntax .. code:: language is collect. I think the issue is the current GitHub RST parser related,
It used to work , lets see if issue will change in the future. For now the specification on GitHub doesn't work

[vickkie]

• Updated and corrected the issue for you..
• Submitted a merge request - check it out

[smheidrich]

Possibly related: GitHub seems to have issues with RST more generally (e.g. files not rendering at all): https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/86715

[felixfontein]

Indeed, and the problem with the underlines affects a lot of other documents as well. I'm for now happy that the documents which simply stopped rendering at all since beginning of January are rendering again, but having them rendered with proper syntax highlighting instead of underlines would be even better :)

[fangq]

two of my projects also had rendering issues for the README.rst files

https://github.com/NeuroJSON/zmat/blob/master/README.rst
the other one

[bartandrews]

Same here: https://github.com/HofstadterTools/HofstadterTools?tab=readme-ov-file#how-to-cite

[bartandrews]

Also, github has at the same time broken the alignment of my images in the readme.rst: https://github.com/HofstadterTools/HofstadterTools?tab=readme-ov-file#quick-start They should each be 32% width, as correctly rendered by sphinx: https://hofstadter.tools/overview.html#quick-start

[bartandrews]

my other code blocks, which are not underlined, have lost their syntax highlighting

[BrianPugh]

same https://github.com/BrianPugh/autoregistry/blob/main/README.rst

[miraculixx]

same https://github.com/dfunckt/django-rules?tab=readme-ov-file#using-rules

(no affiliation)

[12rambau]

I'll add mine to the piles, all my projects using a README.rst are facing issues:

• every code-block get's underlined
• svg badges get a non existing line-break
• image directives are not using the display otpions

few problematic repositories:

• https://github.com/readthedocs/sphinx-autoapi
• https://github.com/12rambau/sepal_ui
• https://github.com/gee-community/ipygee
• https://github.com/12rambau/pypackage

Strangly enough one of my repo (using the same readme template) is rendering perfectly now: https://github.com/gee-community/geetools
The only difference with the pthers is that I made a push very recently. Could it be just a caching issue on Github side ?

[bckohan]

Just adding my upvote for a fix. I have 6 projects that are affected.

[casperdcl]

I opened a ticket (No. 2709825) with GitHub support.

https://github.com/tqdm/tqdm#readme looks sad now :(

Also related to tqdm/tqdm#1546.

[pbelskiy]

Same problem for a long time ...

[enzbus]

Not sure if relevant, but on one of my projects it just happened today after I made (unrelated) edits to the README.rst, it was rendering correctly until before the edit. On another project of mine it was broken already a few weeks ago :(

[Gatsby-Lee]

so I am not alone in this issue.
I thought I did something wrong

[MauricioSalazare]

I second this request. RST readme texts are broken in my projects.

[5j9]

Dear fellow Githubians, it seems that the rst Gods have answered our prayers! Today, I can see syntax highlights on my repositories once again!

[bartandrews]

Fixed for me too! 👍 However, the image formatting is still broken: https://github.com/HofstadterTools/HofstadterTools?tab=readme-ov-file#quick-start I used to have 3 images side-by-side, as correctly rendered by Sphinx: https://hofstadter.tools/overview.html#quick-start

[12rambau]

the rest of the issues raised in this thread (images, code block and links) are still very wrong in my repositories as well.