How to use angle brackets in URL on Github Flavored Markdown?
github-flavored-markdown, markdown
Solution
Since the angle brackets `<` and `>` cannot easily be used (or escaped or encoded) in GitHub Flavored Markdown, one workaround would be to used square brackets:
http://github.com/[my-github-username]/oooooaaaa/fork
That does give the expected result:
a href="http://github.com/">http://github.com/[my-github-username]/oooooaaaa/fork</a>
Problem
I want to use angle brackets in URL on Github Flavor Markdown. Markdown: ``` 1. Fork it ( http://github.com/<my-github-username>/oooooaaaa/fork ) ``` Expect: ``` <li>Fork it ( <a href="http://github.com/">http://github.com/<my-github-username>/oooooaaaa/fork</a> )</li> ``` Actual: ``` <li>Fork it ( <a href="http://github.com/">http://github.com/</a><my-github-username>/oooooaaaa/fork )</my-github-username></li> ```