Hi, Not very good with the HTML and such, so was wondering if someone can tell me, if it's easy, how to make a post like this?
Would specifically want to know how you put a picture or icon next to a text.
Thanks for the help.
The syntax used here is called Markdown. Sadly, board developers have cut away many of markdown's great features, leaving you with but a few options. Specifically, these things are not included in the editor:
#Heading
#Heading
#Heading level 2
##Heading level 2
#Horizontal line
---
#Images (disabled by forum developers because they think they can do better)
Markdown has it's own, very reliable syntax for adding images. Instead, insert image url directly in the text. Usually, it renders properly. Of course, images with spaces in the URL will not work, replace spaces with %20.
#Nested lists
[SPACE]\1. item level 1 [SPACE][SPACE]\1. item level 2 [SPACE]\2. Item level 1
There can be at least 3 levels of nesting, just add more spaces. My test:
#Disable formatting characters
\*no bold here\*
Put backslash before any functional character (*, _, [, ], --- and so on) to have it rendered normally.
#Text style
- *italic*
- **bold**
- ***both***
- ~~strikethrough~~
#Getting post source code
Two ways:
I'm not perfect at this stuff, but I know some things.
First off, this isn't done with HTML. I don't know what it's called, but it's not HTML.
See that line? That was made by typing ---
Wow, that's cool! But how did you type it the second time? Shouldn't it have made a dash?
To prevent something from being 'translated' as formatting, put a \ in font of it. FYI you can make the quote box with > before the text.
## makes nice bold headers.
**makes normal bold text **
make italicized text using *words go here*
***Do both at the same time! *** using ***words go here ***
Note: it looks like italic phrases don't like escaping the *.
words You can cross out words with ~~ on both sides. Again, this one doesn't like the escape character.
Pictures are really easy to include in general. Just paste in the link to your image. I don't know how they got the image next to the text, but it might be that they didn't put the URL on a new line.
Example:
- My first point is this
And
- My second point is this
See the screenshot I attached. I know some people can insert the attachments in line, but I'm not sure how they do it.
The formatting is called Markdown.
Yeah, images on the same line just by typing after the URL. Quote this post if you want to see how I did that, exactly. If you have any other questions, I'd be happy to answer them (I've been using this platform for a long time).
Ah, great help, thanks!
