diff --git a/src/features/viewers/markdown/MarkdownEditor.tsx b/src/features/viewers/markdown/MarkdownEditor.tsx
index 56531525..1983c96a 100644
--- a/src/features/viewers/markdown/MarkdownEditor.tsx
+++ b/src/features/viewers/markdown/MarkdownEditor.tsx
@@ -110,6 +110,16 @@ function MarkdownPreview({ path, sync }: { path: string; sync: boolean }) {
   /** scrollTop set by navigation, whose scroll event isn't the user's. */
   const scrolledTo = useRef<number | null>(null);
   const scrollFrame = useRef(0);
+  /** `<details>` the reader opened or closed, by position: each edit re-renders them as written. */
+  const toggled = useRef(new Map<number, boolean>());
+
+  useLayoutEffect(() => toggled.current.clear(), [path]);
+  useLayoutEffect(() => {
+    ref.current?.querySelectorAll("details").forEach((d, i) => {
+      const open = toggled.current.get(i);
+      if (open !== undefined) d.open = open;
+    });
+  }, [html]);
 
   // Mermaid diagrams: before paint, so cached ones don't flash their source.
   useLayoutEffect(() => {
@@ -219,7 +229,13 @@ function MarkdownPreview({ path, sync }: { path: string; sync: boolean }) {
 
   const onClick = (e: MouseEvent) => {
     const a = (e.target as Element).closest("a");
-    if (!a) return;
+    if (!a) {
+      const details = (e.target as Element).closest("summary")?.parentElement;
+      if (details instanceof HTMLDetailsElement && ref.current) {
+        toggled.current.set([...ref.current.querySelectorAll("details")].indexOf(details), !details.open);
+      }
+      return;
+    }
     e.preventDefault();
     const target = resolveLink(path, a.getAttribute("href") ?? "");
     if (!target) return;
diff --git a/src/features/viewers/markdown/previewDetails.test.tsx b/src/features/viewers/markdown/previewDetails.test.tsx
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..959d8c40
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/features/viewers/markdown/previewDetails.test.tsx
@@ -0,0 +1,59 @@
+import { afterEach, beforeEach, describe, expect, it } from "vitest";
+import { act, cleanup, fireEvent, render, screen, waitFor } from "@testing-library/react";
+import { EditorState } from "@codemirror/state";
+import { EditorView } from "@codemirror/view";
+import { _addEditor, _removeEditor, editorContributions, type EditorDocContext } from "@/editor/api";
+import { fontZoom } from "@/editor/core/cm/prefs";
+import { useContextKeys } from "@/platform/context";
+import { registerMarkdownLiveSource, useLiveMarkdown } from "./live";
+import { MarkdownEditor } from "./MarkdownEditor";
+import { useMarkdownModes } from "./modes";
+
+const ctx: EditorDocContext = { doc: 1, path: "/p/NOTES.md", language: "markdown", uiMode: null, readOnly: false };
+const doc =
+  "<details>\n<summary>One</summary>\n\nFirst\n\n</details>\n\n<details open>\n<summary>Two</summary>\n\nSecond\n\n</details>\n";
+
+describe("preview <details>", () => {
+  const disposers: Array<() => void> = [];
+  let view: EditorView;
+
+  beforeEach(() => {
+    disposers.push(registerMarkdownLiveSource());
+    useContextKeys.setState({ projectOpen: true, textEditorActive: true });
+    const live = editorContributions().find((c) => c.id === "viewers.markdownLive")!;
+    view = new EditorView({ state: EditorState.create({ doc, extensions: [fontZoom, live.extensions(ctx)] }) });
+    const handle = { view, ctx };
+    _addEditor(handle);
+    disposers.push(() => _removeEditor(handle));
+    act(() => useMarkdownModes.setState((s) => ({ byPath: { ...s.byPath, [ctx.path]: "split" } })));
+  });
+  afterEach(() => {
+    cleanup();
+    view.destroy();
+    for (const dispose of disposers.splice(0).reverse()) dispose();
+    useLiveMarkdown.setState({}, true);
+    useContextKeys.setState({}, true);
+  });
+
+  it("keeps what the reader opened and closed across edits", async () => {
+    render(
+      <MarkdownEditor path={ctx.path} tabId="t">
+        <div />
+      </MarkdownEditor>,
+    );
+    const preview = screen.getByRole("document", { name: "Markdown preview" });
+    const details = () => [...preview.querySelectorAll("details")];
+    await waitFor(() => expect(details().map((d) => d.open)).toEqual([false, true]));
+    expect(details()[0]!.querySelector(":scope > p")?.textContent).toBe("First");
+
+    const [one, two] = details();
+    fireEvent.click(one!.querySelector("summary")!);
+    one!.open = true; // jsdom has no summary activation behaviour
+    fireEvent.click(two!.querySelector("summary")!);
+    two!.open = false;
+
+    act(() => view.dispatch({ changes: { from: view.state.doc.length, insert: "\nMore\n" } }));
+    await waitFor(() => expect(preview.textContent).toContain("More"));
+    expect(details().map((d) => d.open)).toEqual([true, false]);
+  });
+});
diff --git a/src/features/viewers/markdown/render.test.ts b/src/features/viewers/markdown/render.test.ts
index cc2b8489..41931713 100644
--- a/src/features/viewers/markdown/render.test.ts
+++ b/src/features/viewers/markdown/render.test.ts
@@ -101,6 +101,87 @@ describe("markdown preview rendering", () => {
     expect(root.querySelector("input[type='checkbox']")).not.toBeNull();
   });
 
+  const blocks = (md: string) => {
+    const root = document.createElement("div");
+    root.innerHTML = renderMarkdown(md);
+    const lines = [...root.querySelectorAll<HTMLElement>(":scope > [data-line]")].map((e) => [
+      e.dataset.line,
+      e.firstElementChild?.tagName,
+    ]);
+    return { root, lines };
+  };
+
+  it("keeps Markdown between a container's tags inside it (#1524)", () => {
+    const { root, lines } = blocks("<details>\n<summary>Summary</summary>\n\nContent\n\n</details>\n\nAfter\n");
+    const details = root.querySelector("details")!;
+    expect(details.open).toBe(false);
+    expect(details.querySelector(":scope > summary")?.textContent).toBe("Summary");
+    expect(details.querySelector(":scope > p")?.textContent).toBe("Content");
+    expect(root.querySelector(":scope > [data-line] > p")?.textContent).toBe("After");
+    expect(lines).toEqual([
+      ["0", "DETAILS"],
+      ["7", "P"],
+    ]);
+  });
+
+  it.each([
+    ["close right after the text", "<details>\n<summary>S</summary>\n\nContent\n</details>\n", "details > p"],
+    ["kept open", "<details open>\n<summary>S</summary>\n\n- a\n- b\n\n</details>\n", "details[open] > ul > li"],
+    ["a centred README header", '<div align="center">\n\n# Title\n\n</div>\n', "div[align='center'] > h1"],
+    ["a section", "<section>\n\n```js\nx\n```\n\n</section>\n", "section > pre > code"],
+    ["upper case", "<DETAILS>\n<SUMMARY>S</SUMMARY>\n\nContent\n\n</DETAILS>\n", "details > p"],
+    ["a list item", "- item\n  <details>\n  <summary>S</summary>\n\n  body\n\n  </details>\n", "li details"],
+  ])("renders the content of a container: %s", (_, md, selector) => {
+    expect(blocks(md).root.querySelector(selector)).not.toBeNull();
+  });
+
+  it("nests containers and ends each at its own close", () => {
+    const { root, lines } = blocks(
+      "<details>\n<summary>A</summary>\n\n<details>\n<summary>B</summary>\n\ninner\n\n</details>\n\nouter\n\n</details>\n\nafter\n",
+    );
+    const [outer, inner] = [...root.querySelectorAll("details")];
+    expect(inner!.parentElement).toBe(outer);
+    expect(inner!.querySelector(":scope > p")?.textContent).toBe("inner");
+    expect(outer!.querySelector(":scope > p")?.textContent).toBe("outer");
+    expect(lines).toEqual([
+      ["0", "DETAILS"],
+      ["14", "P"],
+    ]);
+  });
+
+  it("leaves blocks alone when the container is closed in its own block or only mentioned", () => {
+    expect(blocks("<details><summary>S</summary>x</details>\n\nNext\n").lines).toEqual([
+      ["0", "DETAILS"],
+      ["2", "P"],
+    ]);
+    expect(blocks("<!-- <details> -->\n\nOne\n\nTwo\n").lines.map(([l]) => l)).toEqual(["0", "2", "4"]);
+    expect(blocks("```html\n<details>\n```\n\nOne\n\n`<div>` code\n\nTwo\n").lines.map(([l]) => l)).toEqual([
+      "0",
+      "4",
+      "6",
+      "8",
+    ]);
+    expect(blocks('<img src="a.png" alt="<div>">\n\n<br/>\n\nOne\n').lines.map(([l]) => l)).toEqual(["0", "2", "4"]);
+  });
+
+  it("keeps everything after a container that's never closed inside it", () => {
+    const { root, lines } = blocks("Intro\n\n<details>\n<summary>S</summary>\n\nOne\n\nTwo\n");
+    expect([...root.querySelectorAll("details > p")].map((p) => p.textContent)).toEqual(["One", "Two"]);
+    expect(lines).toEqual([
+      ["0", "P"],
+      ["2", "DETAILS"],
+    ]);
+  });
+
+  it("ignores a stray close", () => {
+    expect(blocks("One\n\n</div>\n\nTwo\n").lines.map(([l]) => l)).toEqual(["0", "2", "4"]);
+    expect(blocks("</details>\n\n<details>\n<summary>S</summary>\n\nIn\n\n</details>\n\nOut\n").lines).toEqual([
+      ["0", undefined],
+      ["2", "DETAILS"],
+      ["9", "P"],
+    ]);
+  });
+
   it("dedupes heading anchors", () => {
     const root = document.createElement("div");
     root.innerHTML = renderMarkdown("## Same\n\n## Same\n");
diff --git a/src/features/viewers/markdown/render.ts b/src/features/viewers/markdown/render.ts
index e3fe1cff..4fac3cbd 100644
--- a/src/features/viewers/markdown/render.ts
+++ b/src/features/viewers/markdown/render.ts
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 /**
- * Markdown → sanitized HTML for the preview. Every top-level block is wrapped
- * in an element carrying its 0-based source line (`data-line`) for scroll
- * sync; images keep their source in `data-src` and are loaded by the preview
+ * Markdown → sanitized HTML for the preview. Every top-level block (or run of
+ * blocks inside one HTML container) is wrapped in an element carrying its
+ * 0-based source line (`data-line`) for scroll sync; images keep their source in `data-src` and are loaded by the preview
  * (local files through the backend, as the CSP blocks file URLs). Mermaid
  * blocks become `[data-mermaid]` placeholders, drawn by `./mermaid`. YAML front matter is shown
  * as a table of its top-level fields.
@@ -99,6 +99,37 @@ function frontMatterTable(fields: readonly [string, string][]): string {
   return `<table data-front-matter=""><tbody>${rows.join("")}</tbody></table>`;
 }
 
+// Containers whose open and close tags may sit in separate HTML blocks with Markdown between them.
+const CONTAINER_TAGS = new Set([
+  "article",
+  "aside",
+  "blockquote",
+  "center",
+  "details",
+  "div",
+  "dl",
+  "figure",
+  "footer",
+  "header",
+  "main",
+  "nav",
+  "ol",
+  "section",
+  "table",
+  "ul",
+]);
+const TAG = /<(\/?)([a-zA-Z][\w-]*)(?:"[^"]*"|'[^']*'|[^'">])*?(\/?)>/g;
+
+/** Applies the container tags an HTML block opens and closes to `open`, the stack of unclosed ones. */
+function trackContainers(raw: string, open: string[]) {
+  for (const [, closing, name, selfClosing] of raw.replace(/<!--[\s\S]*?(?:-->|$)/g, "").matchAll(TAG)) {
+    const tag = name!.toLowerCase();
+    if (!CONTAINER_TAGS.has(tag) || selfClosing) continue;
+    if (!closing) open.push(tag);
+    else if (open.includes(tag)) open.length = open.lastIndexOf(tag);
+  }
+}
+
 export function renderMarkdown(text: string): string {
   const front = frontMatter(text);
   const body = front ? text.split("\n").slice(front.lines).join("\n") : text;
@@ -106,6 +137,10 @@ export function renderMarkdown(text: string): string {
   const slugs = new Map<string, number>();
   let line = front?.lines ?? 0;
   let html = front ? `<div data-line="0">${frontMatterTable(front.fields)}</div>` : "";
+  // Blocks inside an HTML container left open (`<details>`, `<div>`…) share its wrapper up to
+  // the close: a wrapper per block would end the container early and spill its content out.
+  const open: string[] = [];
+  let group: { line: number; html: string } | null = null;
   for (const token of tokens) {
     const start = line;
     line += countLines(token.raw);
@@ -118,8 +153,14 @@ export function renderMarkdown(text: string): string {
       slugs.set(base, n + 1);
       body = body.replace(/^<h(\d)>/, `<h$1 id="${ANCHOR_PREFIX}${n ? `${base}-${n}` : base}">`);
     }
-    html += `<div data-line="${start}">${body}</div>`;
+    group ??= { line: start, html: "" };
+    group.html += body;
+    if (token.type === "html") trackContainers(token.raw, open);
+    if (open.length) continue;
+    html += `<div data-line="${group.line}">${group.html}</div>`;
+    group = null;
   }
+  if (group) html += `<div data-line="${group.line}">${group.html}</div>`;
   // The preview shares the IDE's document: a `<style>` in a file would restyle the whole IDE.
   return purify().sanitize(html, {
     USE_PROFILES: { html: true },