✍ Post formatting options

Knowledge base
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You have three options for formatting articles and posts in the Tech Forum:

  1. What Markdown is allowed?
  2. What BBCode is allowed?
  3. What HTML is allowed?

All 3 can be mixed and merged to some extent.

Markdown

Simple: the Markdown implementation is very close to the standard.
http://commonmark.org/help

BBCode

We support a subset of “common” BBCode, including:

[b]strong[/b]
[i]emphasis[/i]
[u]underlined[/u]
[s]strikethrough[/s]
[ul][li]option one[/li][/ul]

[quote="eviltrout"][/quote]

[img]http://eviltrout.com/eviltrout.png[/img]
[url]http://bettercallsaul.com[/url]
[email]eviltrout@mailinator.com[/email]
[code]\nx++\n[/code]

Custom BBCode specific to Discourse, needed for functions that don’'t fit into Markdown, but do fit into BBCode.

[spoiler]it's a sled[/spoiler]
[quote="eviltrout, post:1, topic:2"]

HTML

Markdown specifies that it works seamlessly with HTML, so we do.

However, we only support a “safe” subset of HTML. I’ll have to dig to find the specifics, but anything common you’d expect to work that isn’t crazy – like <script> – should work.