Can I Include a URL Link Within a Chunk of Code in a Github Markdown Document? - url

Question

I'm looking to propose some small tweaks/improvements to my employer's coding standard written in Github markdown (*.md).
I've prepped by reviewing a couple of references this markdown language's formatting conventions.
From my readings I see that I can add URLs in at least two different ways:
Standard HTML:
TEXT
Markdown style links:
[TEXT](LINK_URL)
...and code markdown is written as:
Markdown style:
```LANGUAGE
MY CODE;
```
Implicit code denotation via 4 space indent.
However, I've been unable to find a reference on whether you can include a hyperlink inside a block of code (i.e. to the location of that object's source in your repository).
i.e. I want to do something like:
```javascript
_myQObject: <a title="QML Source for MyQObject" href="URL_TO_SOURCE">MyQObject {}
```
That does not work, however, and I've been unable to find documentation explicitly stating whether this is possible or not.
How can I include a link to a URL within a chunk of formatted Github markdown?
Is this possible?
For reference the basic style guides I've reviewed are:
Github Guides: "Mastering Markdown"
Adam-P's "Markdown Cheatsheet"

Answer 1

How can I include a link to a URL within a chunk of formatted Github markdown?
As far as I know this is not possible.
The original Markdown specification says:
With a code span, ampersands and angle brackets are encoded as HTML entities automatically, which makes it easy to include example HTML tags.
…
Regular Markdown syntax is not processed within code blocks. E.g., asterisks are just literal asterisks within a code block. This means it’s also easy to use Markdown to write about Markdown’s own syntax.
I haven't seen anything in the GitHub Markdown docs to suggest that they have added support for links in code blocks, and nothing I've tried has worked.
I also haven't seen this feature in any other Markdown implementations.

Answer 2

This is a late reply, but for people who come here hoping for a solution, there is a way to add links inside preformatted blocks. If you use an HTML block with <pre> ... </pre> instead of using the code block formatting sequence (i.e., don't use fenced code blocks or indented code blocks), you can then use <a> elements inside the preformatted text block. E.g.
<pre>
myQObject: MyQObject {}
</pre>
You lose the automatic syntax highlighting provided by "proper" code blocks, so there is a tradeoff.