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Closes #2054

Problem

In the MarkdownViewer, Mermaid source is inserted into the HTML without escaping:

if (lang === 'mermaid') {
  return '<div class="mermaid">' + str + '</div>';
}

Annotations such as <<interface>> in a classDiagram are parsed by the browser as HTML tags, so the diagram source is corrupted before Mermaid sees it and rendering fails with "Syntax error in text".

Fix

Escape < in the Mermaid source before inserting it into the container:

return '<div class="mermaid">' + str.replace(/</g, '&lt;') + '</div>';

The bundled Mermaid reads the element's innerHTML and decodes entities (entityDecode) before parsing, so it still receives the original source.

Only < is escaped on purpose. It is the only character that starts markup, so this is enough to stop the browser from treating <<interface>> as tags. Other entities are left untouched, so documents that already contain entities in their Mermaid source (e.g. A --> B) keep rendering as before. Escaping & as well (md.utils.escapeHtml) would turn --> into a literal --> and break those diagrams.

Verification

Built with dotnet build (Debug) and previewed in the app with Space, using a .md file with several mermaid blocks, a .mermaid file and a .mmd file:

• classDiagram with <<interface>> / <<enumeration>> / <<abstract>> / <<service>> renders correctly
• stateDiagram with <<choice>> / <<fork>> renders correctly
• Generics (Box~T~, List~T~) and a label containing a & b < c > d are preserved
• <br/>, <br>, <b>, <i> in labels render as before
• Existing flowcharts / sequence diagrams render as before
• Entities written directly in the source (X --> Y) still render as before
• .mermaid and .mmd files render correctly

The same md2html.html was also compared before/after in headless Edge (normalized SVG output): the cases above are identical to the old behavior, except <<interface>>, which used to fail with a syntax error and now renders.

This is a one-line change limited to the Mermaid rendering path of the MarkdownViewer.

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Walkthrough

The Mermaid fence renderer now replaces each < in diagram source with < before inserting the source into the .mermaid element. Other characters and entities remain unchanged.

Changes: Mermaid rendering

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Escape Mermaid source QuickLook.Plugin/QuickLook.Plugin.MarkdownViewer/Resources/md2html.html	The Mermaid fence renderer replaces each < in diagram source with &lt; before inserting it into the wrapper.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~5 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Suggested reviewers: emako

Merge Risk: Minimal · up to a05f6

Mermaid annotations are escaped before rendering; no merge-blocking issue was identified.

Pre-merge checks: 5

Check name	Status	Explanation
Description Check		Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check		The title describes the main change: fixing Mermaid class diagram annotations in MarkdownViewer.
Linked Issues check		[#2054] md2html.html escapes each < in Mermaid fence content before assigning the rendered HTML to innerHTML. This prevents annotations and generic text from becoming HTML tags. The issue does n…
Out of Scope Changes check		[#2054] The whole-PR diff changes only Mermaid fence escaping and its comments. Both changes support the issue.
Docstring Coverage		No eligible functions found in the changed files. Skipping docstring coverage check. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff with cyclomatic complexity of at least 2. Documentat…

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Explanation

[#2054] md2html.html escapes each < in Mermaid fence content before assigning the rendered HTML to innerHTML. This prevents annotations and generic text from becoming HTML tags. The issue does not require an automated test. The reported manual checks describe escapeHtml, not the current <-only implementation.

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@QuickLook.Plugin/QuickLook.Plugin.MarkdownViewer/Resources/md2html.html:
- Line 227: Update the Mermaid rendering path that builds the div with
md.utils.escapeHtml so encoded operators such as `A --> B` reach
Mermaid in their previously accepted form, while still preventing the source
from being interpreted as HTML. Preserve the existing HTML-safety boundary
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