Jekyll doesn't render Markdown when adding HTML

Question

I have this markdown code in a Markdown file. It has inline HTML.

---
layout: page
title: About This Website
permalink: /about/
---


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Answer 1

That's exactly how the original Markdown implementation works:

Note that Markdown formatting syntax is not processed within block-level HTML tags. E.g., you can’t use Markdown-style *emphasis* inside an HTML block.

Jekyll uses Redcarpet by default which behaves the same way. If you are running Jekyll yourself you might be able to create a custom Markdown processor to do what you want, but that won't work if you're using something like GitHub Pages for hosting.