Can I narrow page width in Bitbucket Markdown?

Question

https://bitbucket.org/blog/introducing-the-new-fluid-width-bitbucket

writes that

"The more code you can see on your screen, the easier it is to work with it. That’s why we broke away from our traditional fixed-width pages, and redesigned every page on Bitbucket to expand to the full width of your screen, as wide as your browser will allow."

I write my README.md for documentation and having too wide lines makes it hard to read.

So this is not what I want, I disagree with the above quote.

I would like to have a Markdown command that sets the width of the text body.

Is this possible in Bitbucket Markdown?

Michael Leibl · Answer

I tried adding in the first line of the README.md. It works in the preview of VS Code but did not work on Bitbucket Server 7.19.3. It's not shown in verbatim, just not shown at all and not effect.

Michael Leibl · Answer

I agree with Buday_Gergely_Istvan.

README.md should not span the full width of my screen. It's not readable. Imagine this thread would be 100% of this window.

Also setting it to 1200px is not a good idea: https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/BSERV-6926

A solution would be some fixed number of "em". Because this translates into a fixed number of characters per line, which is exactly what we needfor readability.

Buday.Gergely.Istvan · Answer

https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/BCLOUD-6930

says that embedded HTML is shipped:

"The Bitbucket Cloud team has successfully shipped this feature to our customers!"

but I do not see in the Markdown documentation:

https://confluence.atlassian.com/bitbucketserver/markdown-syntax-guide-776639995.html

how I could do embedded HTML.