How to Discourse: tips and tricks

Markdown formatting

Beware: while used lightly it can make text more readable, overuse can get in the way pretty fast…

Discourse use Markdown (invented by John Gruber and Aaron Swartz :angel: ) to let the user quickly format their text.
https://commonmark.org/help/

Bellow, I use backticks to get some Preformatted text
(you can use theimage button to get such backticks around your text)
You can also use triple backticks before and after a paragraph. It’s usually made to display code though.

want how
italic *italic*
bold **bold**
italic bold ***italic bold***
big <big>big</big>
small <small>small</small>
small but under the line <sub>small but under the line</sub>
strikethrough ~~strikethrough~~
underlined [u]underlined[/u]
key <kbd>key</kbd>

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Tables in Markdown language:

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