Markdown card doesn't work

Configuration Frontend
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I can’t get the markdown card to work at all. Is there some basic setting that I’m missing?
Even the simple example card:
type: markdown
content: |
Hello, {{user}}
shows just that: Hello {{user}}
Help, please?

2

At least one of you smart people must know the answer?

3

Please try formatting your code properly and it may be easier to figure out it it is correct… number 11 here if you aren’t sure how: How to help us help you - or How to ask a good question

4

The {{ user }} is a template variable that belongs to the entity-filter card
If you want to see the user all the time, set up a dummy sensor for the entity-filter.

This is the only way I could get {{ user }} to display.

  - type: entity-filter
    entities:
      - sensor.water_tank_status
    state_filter:
      - 'Clear'
    card:
      type: markdown
      content: |
        ## {{ user }}
5

The {{user}} was just a simple example that shows that it’s not working. It doesn’t work when I paste your yaml directly into my card either (using one of my sensors, of course).
But what I’ve learned from your answer, @cyn, is that markdown in itself works. Bold, italics, headings, images etc are fine. But it is the curly braces stuff that doesn’t work, meaning no Home Assistant stuff is available.

6

Maybe @thomasloven knows more? Any prerequisites that I don’t have?

7

Hard to debug when you don’t post your code and log.

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Here’s the card contents, almost straight from the lovelace example.
The formatting (bold/italic) is shown, but the user is not.
Where can I find the log? There’s nothing about this in the home-assistant.log that I can find.

content: |
  **Bold:{{user}}** *Italic*
type: markdown
9

Solved! When I removed the “old” markdown-mod card, markdown works just fine!
Thanks for all the help!

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good news indeed