In my opinion, the markdown editor is needed to communicate better with the ChatGPT. If the ChatGPT uses markdown, why not the user?
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While the markdown user inputs aren’t rendered the same as the chat output, the markdown should still be communicated to ChatGPT as if it did.
I regularly input markdown in my chats with ChatGPT and haven’t noticed any issues.
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There is a very simple solution:
Three rear sticks and followed by the Language indicator, for example ‘’'TXT, ‘’'MD, ‘’‘JAVA
In the following lines what you want to write
and close with three rear sticks ‘’’
You ask him to answer in that language and he does, simple, right?
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While I know that the markdown input is communicated to ChatGPT properly, I still want the input formatted as markdown instead of plain text so that I can comprehend what I’m prompting better. As it stands, it’s like I’m writing code in Notepad instead of an IDE. I don’t know if that’s what OP’s intentions were, but that’s what I want to see.
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This will be really helpful like @NovaChromatic and @orlyyt just mentioned.
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To clarify, the feature I want is pretty much the same as Reddit’s Fancy Pants Editor.
Manipulating text is one of my favorite use cases that I don’t think people talk about more. I recently asked ChatGPT to switch two columns in a table and it did it flawlessly. ChatGPT displayed the table properly, but it still would have been nice to see my plaintext prompt also stylized.
Totally agreed! I often try to read the code I have inputted into ChatGPT, or I attempt to write code/pseudo code directly into the prompt window, and having markdown would be very helpful.
As of today, 16 June 2024, seems like Markdown input is supported 
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Yes, we also noted this yesterday.
In case anyone is running into weird formatting issues with code use three backticks to enclose the code block.
The formatting works like a charm in that case.
If you want you can also add the language after the three backticks like @srdobrais pointed out earlier.
Which platform are you using and has markdown input working?
It is not working on Android APK, Android Chrome browser or chrome Mac and Windows for me as of end Nov 2024
I tried chatGPT with markdown input in a few more platforms and devices and it’s never formatted anything for us on the input commands, just the outputs. According to it, it’s the way it’s been designed.
How have you guys been able to have markdown input rendered? Could you pls send a screenshot to see how it looks?
Is this a bug or a limitation?
It’s not a bug but rather a current limitation of the platform. The developers of ChatGPT appear to have designed the system to prioritize rendering Markdown in generated responses rather than in user input. This behavior is consistent across:
The mobile app. Browsers like Chrome and Firefox (on both Windows and macOS).
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That must have been a misunderstanding.
As far as I know, there has never been a way to render input as Markdown. I assume you received unformatted code blocks as a response.
If you’d like, you can submit a feature request in the ChatGPT subcategory.
ChatGPT does go as far as hiding code fence block markers, and putting the code in monospace, so there is some parsing done on input, as can be seen below, and it is also dumb, hiding ``` in the middle of sentences.
Above, a new complex style sheet is used on ChatGPT to make code be full width among other things.
That just leaves room still for the application developer to provide solutions…
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