# Shortcode - markdown vs html vs table of content

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**Category:** support\
**Created:** [April 24, 2019, 2:24pm UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/shortcode-markdown-vs-html-vs-table-of-content/18282 "2019-04-24T14:24:07Z")\
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Yes, that works! Very cool! Thanks! 🙂 (But is it a hack or actually a good solution that should be in the docs? 🙂 For one thing I’ve seen @bep advise against using “{{%” due to unpredictable behavior of the blackfriday markdown renderer…)

Trying to avoid changing the template I came up with this (a nested div and three printf:s to avoid a oneliner):

```auto
 {{ printf "<div class=\"style1\">" | htmlUnescape | safeHTML }}
 {{ printf "<div class=\"style2 style3 \">%s</div>" .Inner | htmlUnescape | safeHTML }}
 {{ printf "</div>" | htmlUnescape | safeHTML }}

```

And it works!

> It’s crucial to have 1-3 space before the first `{{`. zero or four spaces won’t work. But I’m not sure why!

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