# No-markdown islands

**URL:** <https://talk.commonmark.org/t/no-markdown-islands/132>\
**Category:** Spec\
**Created:** [September 3, 2014, 11:05pm UTC](https://talk.commonmark.org/t/no-markdown-islands/132 "2014-09-03T23:05:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![Burt\_Harris](https://cdn.commonmark.org/user_avatar/talk.commonmark.org/burt_harris/32/368_2.png) [@Burt\_Harris](https://talk.commonmark.org/u/Burt_Harris)\
**Post date:** [September 16, 2014, 5:10am UTC](https://talk.commonmark.org/t/no-markdown-islands/132/18 "2014-09-16T05:10:45Z")

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Does a `<![CDATA[` … `]]>` section fit your definition of a no-markdown island?

You can put almost anything you want in one, except maybe `]]>` There seems to be a few fine points to work out around them, but they are already in the spec.

I was testing in the block context and found a spec issue, see: [Drawing a distinction between HTML block elements and non-element tags](http://talk.commonmark.org/t/drawing-a-distinction-between-html-block-elements-non-element-tags/606). We may need to pay similar attention to the difference between Raw HTML and non-element tags like CDATA.

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