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Add support for <kbd></kbd> tag

feature-request add tag

Solomon Rutzky

If there's no technical reason _not_ to do this, please add markdown support for the [&lt;kbd&gt;](https://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_kbd.asp) tag.

@Adám found a **markdown-it** plugin that supports this:

<https://github.com/jGleitz/markdown-it-kbd>

According to that GitHub page:

> Renders `[[x]]` as `<kbd>x</kbd>`


Also, if possible, please add an icon for it to the button bar on the far left (that has Bold, Italics, Link, Quote, etc). And, if _that's_ possible, then while in there tinkering with stuffs, perhaps add buttons for ^superscript^ and ~subscript~ as well? :smile_cat:  I think all three would be more widely used if more folks knew that they were available.

Thanks muchly :smiley_cat:

Hi again. For some reason I did not see any of the text of your message below the quote when you first posted it. Glad to hear that there's already a plugin. I will update this request to reflect that. Thanks for finding that!

Are you saying that it can only be supported if it is an existing markdown-it plugin? And since there isn't a plugin for `<kbd>`, this is a no-go? Unless I can get markdown-it to create such a plugin, or I guess submit one myself? It should mainly be a copy-paste of the ``, ``, and `<ins>` plugins, right?

Interesting: when I "inspect element" in Chrome, this chat window retains the `^` and `~` markdown, but on the left side, in my question, that same markdown shows as the rendered `` and `` tags.

I get that, to a degree. I'm not trying to be difficult, but as an end-user I kinda feel like that's an implementation detail. I do see now that the `^` and `~` markdown is being rendered client-side instead of server-side, but in the end, to me, it's still just a `<kbd>` tag that will be rendered.

@Solomon We're using markdown-it with extensions, and per [this](https://topanswers.xyz/meta?q=72): > If you miss something that you can only do in with inline HTML on SE, it may be available as a plugin for markdown-it Indeed, [there is a plugin](https://github.com/jGleitz/markdown-it-kbd) that makes `[[OK]]` render as `<kbd>OK</kbd>`. I suggest you request that instead.

Yes, I got that. But doesn't TA support superscript and subscript via markdown? If so, they are also markup: `` and ``, respectively. I'm just wanting `<kbd>` to be supported in the same manner.

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