bolding part of code in MediWiki

Question

I use mediawiki-1.30.0 and want to bold a part of code snippet in MediaWiki. Unfortunately as it is described here, it seems  does not work in pre tag. Also I did not find any way to bold a part of code in SyntaxHighlight_GeSHi extension which comes with MediaWiki 1.21 and above.

How I can bold part of code snippet without adding a space in front of each row?

Edit

I tested all these three:

<pre>
a <strong>text</strong> inside another ...
</pre>


<pre>
a &lt;strong&gt;text&lt;/strong&gt; inside another ...
</pre>

<code>
a &lt;strong&gt;text&lt;/strong&gt; inside another ...
</code>

The result was the same:

a <strong>text</strong> inside another ...

Only <code></code> bolds text, for example for both below codes

<code>
a <strong>text</strong> inside another ...
and another line
</code>

<code>
a <b>text</b> inside another ...
and another line
</code>

the result is:

a text inside another ... and another line

As you can see it processes ; but does not preserve new line characters.

And you can't put a space in front of each line? Using a space instead of `
` allows the use of tags and wiki markup. — a stone arachnid, Aug 26 '18 at 03:20

a stone arachnid · Accepted Answer · 2018-08-30T13:13:54.407

If you absolutely cannot add a space in front of each line, you could try using this: (somewhat inspired by @StanislavKralin's comment)

<code class="mw-code" style="display:block">
a <strong>text</strong> inside another ...
and another line
</code>

The .mw-code class mirrors the styles for <pre> for any element that has it. However, it also needs a display: block to be formatted correctly. If you didn't want to put the display: block on every instance, you could add the following code to the MediaWiki:Common.css page:

.mw-code{
    display: block;
}

Then, you would only have to add the .mw-code class to the <code> element.

However, this only works if no lines are skipped and the code isn't ever indented, this longer test case:

<code class="mw-code" style="display:block">
using System;

namespace <b>GDB</b>
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string argv)
        { 
            Console.Write("Hello!");

            Console.Read();
        }
    }
}
</code>

makes this: Since this is not a <pre>, the wikitext is still parsed inside, such as a space making a code block, which is why we have all the nested codeblocks.

Alternatively, you could add a space in front of each row, like so:

 a <strong>text</strong> inside another ...
 and another line

yields:

a text inside another ...
and another line

and always works:

At first `...` worked but suddenly it does not preserve "new line"s. — hasanghaforian, Aug 30 '18 at 02:28
@hasanghaforian At first, I only tested it with the provided test case. I have edited to include additional tests I have done. — a stone arachnid, Aug 30 '18 at 13:15
@a stone arachnid It seems it has not a simple solution, so I accept your answer. — hasanghaforian, Aug 30 '18 at 14:14

score 1 · Answer 2 · edited Jun 20 '20 at 09:12

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You can use <code> and  and then use the   tag for new lines if you want:

<code>
a <strong>text</strong> inside another ...
<br>and another line
</code>

the result is:

a text inside another

and another line

edited Jun 20 '20 at 09:12

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answered Aug 28 '18 at 12:22

Hershel

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Adding "space" character in front of each line is much easier than adding `
` at the end of lines. – hasanghaforian Aug 29 '18 at 07:08

bolding part of code in MediWiki

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