When editing a post, headings with a single hash # show as significantly bigger than headings with a double hash ##. However, after saving, these two headings are much closer in size (to the point that my initial draft of this post mistakenly claimed that they are the same size).

For example:

# Heading 1
## Heading 2
### Heading 3
#### Heading 4

renders as:

Heading 1

Heading 2

Heading 3

Heading 4

Notice that Heading 1 and Heading 2 are quite similar in size here while you are reading this, but if you edit this post and look at the preview while editing, Heading 1 will be significantly bigger.

What should the correct behaviour be?

Personally I prefer the sizes that show in the preview while editing. I can easily tell the difference between Heading 1 and Heading 2 even if they are not adjacent in the post. I find the sizes in the saved post to be difficult to distinguish even when adjacent (especially in real cases that, unlike this example, don't both start with the same word).

Whatever the decision, what I see as important is that the preview should have the same behaviour as the rendered question, to avoid frustration for the question author, or being overlooked leading to a question that does not look as expected when written.

posted about 2 years ago

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2y ago

trichoplax‭

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