<p dir="auto">For example the following works fine:</p>
<h2 dir="auto">Box Sizing:</h2>
<p dir="auto"><code class="notranslate">_base.css</code></p>
<p dir="auto">But if I remove the ticks like this:</p>
<h2 dir="auto">Box Sizing:</h2>
<p dir="auto">_base.css:</p>
<p dir="auto">Syntax highlighting no longer works for the text that follows</p>
<p dir="auto">If in the markdown code there is a <code class="notranslate">*</code>, everything after that character will have italic style.<br>
I saw this recently in the GitHub diffs (e.g. <a href="https://github.com/github/git-lfs/commit/d8f780329b64e789553bc8ccccfb993ebc430325">this one</a>):</p>
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