Templater syntax highlighting breaks table rendering in Live Preview when <% appears in code spans

[Remilia-Kirisame]

Steps to reproduce

1. Set template folder to Templates/ (or any folder)
2. Create a note outside that folder
3. Add this table:

Command	Shows
git log --pretty=format:"%h - %an <%ae> - %s"	Works fine
git show -s --format="%an <%ae>" <hash>	Breaks from here
git blame <file>	Also broken

4. Switch to Live Preview

Expected result

All three rows render as a table in Live Preview, same as in Reading mode.

Actual result

• Reading mode: ✅ Table renders correctly (screenshot 1)

• Live Preview (edit mode): ❌ Only the first data row renders. From the second row onward, the table breaks — text appears as raw markdown in a "commented-out" colour, as if the parser has fallen out of table context (screenshot 2)

• Source mode: ❌ Similar to Live Preview

Environment

• Obsidian version: 1.12.7
• OS: macOS 15.7.2
• Theme: Default / Blue Topaz / AnuPpucin (Tried all)
• Community plugins: Templater (works find in restricted mode and other plugins)
• Templater version: 2.18.1

Additional information

The issue seems to be caused by bare angle brackets (like , ) inside backtick code spans within table cells. The Live Preview parser appears to interpret them as HTML tags, which breaks the table rendering.

The first row survives because its <%ae> is enclosed in double quotes ("...<%ae>..."), but the second row's sits outside the quotes and trips the parser.

After testing, turns out that Templater caused this.

[Zachatoo]

Validated in Sandbox vault with just Templater installed, thanks for the report.

You can disable syntax highlighting in Templater settings to fix this for now.

[MrChozo]

Bumped. This happened to me as well when I was writing this code block that was denoted as using Bash syntax:

# Test command that I ran
grep -rlZ '\[npcs-enemies\](npcs-enemies\.md)' "$directory" \
  | xargs -0 -I{} printf '<%s>\n' "{}"

Syntax highlighting in Live Preview breaks on line 3 after the <%, including when "Source mode" is enabled.