r/reddit.com • u/AnteChronos • Apr 07 '08

Reddit markdown primer. Or, how do you do all that fancy formatting in your comments, anyway?

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u/AnteChronos Apr 07 '08 edited Nov 12 '13

Note: For a full list of markdown syntax, see the official syntax guide. Also note that reddit doesn't support images, for which I am grateful, as that would most definitely be the catalyst needed to turn reddit into 4chan (/r/circlejerk/, which uses CSS trickery to permit some level of image posting, is a great example of the destructive power of images).

PARAGRAPHS

Paragraphs are delimited by a blank line. Simply starting text on a new line won't create a new paragraph; It will remain on the same line in the final, rendered version as the previous line. You need an extra, blank line to start a new paragraph. This is especially important when dealing with quotes and, to a lesser degree, lists.

You can also add non-paragraph line breaks by ending a line with two spaces. The difference is subtle:

Paragraph 1, Line 1
Paragraph 1, Line 2

Paragraph 2

FONT FORMATTING

Italics

Text can be displayed in an italic font by surrounding a word or words with either single asterisks (*) or single underscores (_).

For example:

This sentence includes *italic text*.

is displayed as:

This sentence includes italic text.

Bold

Text can be displayed in a bold font by surrounding a word or words with either double asterisks (*) or double underscores (_).

For example:

This sentence includes **bold text**.

is displayed as:

This sentence includes bold text.

Strikethrough

Text can be displayed in a strikethrough font by surrounding a word or words with double tildes (~~). For example:

This sentence includes ~ ~strikethrough text~ ~

(but with no spaces between the tildes; escape sequences [see far below] appear not to work with tildes, so I can't demonstrate the exact usage).

is displayed as:

This sentence includes strikethrough text.

Superscript

Text can be displayed in a superscript font by preceding it with a caret ( ^ ).

This sentence includes super^ script

(but with no spaces after the caret; Like strikethrough, the superscript syntax doesn't play nicely with escape sequences).

is displayed as:

This sentence includes superscript.

Superscripts can even be nested: justlikethis .

However, note that the superscript font will be reset by a space. To get around this, you can enclose the text in the superscript with parentheses. The parentheses won't be displayed in the comment, and everything inside of them will be superscripted, regardless of spaces:

This sentence^ (has a superscript with multiple words)

Once again, with no space after the caret.

is displayed as

This sentencehas a superscript with multiple words

Headers

Markdown supports 6 levels of headers (some of which don't actually display as headers in reddit):

Header 1

Header 2

Header 3

Header 4

Header 5
Header 6

...which can be created in a couple of different ways. Level 1 and 2 headers can be created by adding a line of equals signs (=) or dashes (-), respectively, underneath the header text.

However, all types of headers can be created with a second method. Simply prepend a number of hashes (#) corresponding to the header level you want, so:

# Header 1

## Header 2

### Header 3

#### Header 4

##### Header 5

###### Header 6

results in:

Header 1

Header 2

Header 3

Header 4

Header 5
Header 6

Note: you can add hashes after the header text to balance out how the source code looks without affecting what is displayed. So:

## Header 2 ##

also produces:

Header 2

LISTS

Markdown supports two types of lists: ordered and unordered.

Unordered Lists

Prepend each element in the list with either a plus (+), dash (-), or asterisk (*) plus a space. Line openers can be mixed. So

* Item 1

+ Item 2

- Item 3

results in

  • Item 1

  • Item 2

  • Item 3

Ordered Lists

Ordered lists work roughly the same way, but you prepend each item in the list with a number plus a period (.) plus a space. Also, it makes no difference what numbers you use. The ordered list will always start with the number 1, and will always increment sequentially. So

7. Item 1

2. Item 2

5. Item 3

results in

7. Item 1 2. Item 2 5. Item 3

Also, you can nest lists, like so:

  1. Ordered list item 1

    • Bullet 1 in list item 2

    • Bullet 2 in list item 2

  3. List item 3

Note: If your list items consist of multiple paragraphs, you can force each new paragraph to remain in the previous list item by indenting it by one tab or four spaces. So

* This item has multiple paragraphs.

(four spaces here)This is the second paragraph

* Item 2

results in:

  • This item has multiple paragraphs.

    This is the second paragraph

  • Item 2

Notice how the spaces in my source were stripped out? What if you need to preserve formatting? That brings us to:

CODE BLOCKS AND INLINE CODE

Inline code is easy. Simply surround any text with backticks (`), not to be confused with apostrophes ('). Anything between the backticks will be rendered in a fixed-width font, and none of the formatting syntax we're exploring will be applied. So

Here is some `inline code with **formatting**`

is displayed as:

Here is some inline code with **formatting**

Note that this is why you should use the normal apostrophe when typing out possessive nouns or contractions. Otherwise you may end up with something like:

I couldnt believe that he didnt know that!

Sometimes you need to preserve indentation, too. In those cases, you can create a block code element by starting every line of your code with four spaces (followed by other spaces that will be preserved). You can get results like the following:

public void main(Strings argv[]){
    System.out.println("Hello world!");
}

LINKS

There are a couple of ways to get HTML links. The easiest is to just paste a valid URL, which will be automatically parsed as a link. Like so:

http://en.wikipedia.org

However, usually you'll want to have text that functions as a link. In that case, include the text inside of square brackets followed by the URL in parentheses. So:

[Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org).

results in:

Wikipedia.

You can also provide tooltip text for links like so:

[Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org "tooltip text").

results in:

Wikipedia.

There are other methods of generating links that aren't appropriate for discussion-board style comments. See the Markdown Syntax if you're interested in more info.

BLOCK QUOTES

You'll probably do a lot of quoting of other redditors. In those cases, you'll want to use block quotes. Simple begin each line you want quoted with a right angle bracket (>). Multiple angle brackets can be used for nested quotes. To cause a new paragraph to be quoted, begin that paragraph with another angle bracket. So the following:

>Here's a quote.

>Another paragraph in the same quote.
>>A nested quote.

>Back to a single quote.

And finally some unquoted text.

Is displayed as:

Here's a quote.

Another paragraph in the same quote.

A nested quote.

Back to a single quote.

And finally some unquoted text.

MISCELLANEOUS

Tables

Reddit has the ability to represent tabular data in fancy-looking tables. For example:

someheaderlabels
Left-justifiedcenter-justifiedright-justified
abc
def

Which is produced with the following markdown:

some|header|labels
:---|:--:|---:
Left-justified|center-justified|right-justified
a|b|c
d|e|f

All you need to produce a table is a row of headers separated by "pipes" (|), a row indicating how to justify the columns, and 1 or more rows of data (again, pipe-separated).

The only real "magic" is in the row between the headers and the data. It should ideally be formed with rows dashes separated by pipes. If you add a colon to the left of the dashes for a column, that column will be left-justified. To the right for right justification, and on both sides for centered data. If there's no colon, it defaults to left-justified.

Any number of dashes will do, even just one. You can use none at all if you want it to default to left-justified, but it's just easier to see what you're doing if you put a few in there.

Also note that the pipes (signifying the dividing line between cells) don't have to line up. You just need the same number of them in every row.

Escaping special characters

If you need to display any of the special characters, you can escape that character with a backslash (\). For example:

Escaped \*italics\*

results in:

Escaped *italics*

Horizontal rules

Finally, to create a horizontal rule, create a separate paragraph with 5 or more asterisks (*).

*****

results in

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u/[deleted] Apr 07 '08

OK, tell the truth - how many edits did it take to get your comment exactly right?

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u/AnteChronos Apr 07 '08

Honestly? I have no idea. Several dozen, at least. Plus, I didn't want to create a submission and then spend half an hour getting the relevant post right, so I hijacked one of my really old posts, crafted the finished product, and then created this submission.

What's that? Slow day at the office? Whatever gave you that idea?

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u/outsiderplay Apr 07 '08

Well done, very useful and much needed.

But before someone else says it: karma kiss-ass ;-)

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u/AnteChronos Apr 07 '08

karma kiss-ass

Heh, not really. My karma-whoring submission for the day was my submission to today's XKCD. I enjoy XKCD, and it's always getting to the front page, so I though, "Why not?"

This submission is based more on a couple of other recent posts I've made helping people with post formatting, combined with an extremely slow day at the office.

Not that I'd complain if some karma happens to come my way ;-)

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u/msdesireeg Apr 07 '08

This is why you're my favorite Ante! I was one of the people you so patiently helped!

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u/[deleted] Apr 07 '08 edited Apr 07 '08

"..very useful and much needed."

Yeah, we're just a <blink> away from nirvana....

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u/[deleted] Apr 07 '08

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u/outsiderplay Apr 07 '08

It really doesn't bother me at all...it was a flippant, light-hearted comment intended to raise a tiny, slight hint of a smile. I realize it was hardly Wildean in its wit or Proustian in its profundity, but these are the pleasantries that set us apart from the animals.

/pretentiousness

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u/coob Apr 07 '08 edited Apr 07 '08

Oh god an English Lit major :(

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u/broohaha Apr 07 '08

Why do you care enough to ask?

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u/[deleted] Apr 08 '08

Wait a moment. Why do you care enough to ask why he cares enough to ask?

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u/averyv Apr 07 '08

curiosity and name-calling are not comparable

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u/pandemik Oct 19 '09

How do I make a strike-through?

--test-- -test-

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u/Topocane Apr 20 '10

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u/pandemik Apr 20 '10

awesome, please tell me how!

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u/43P04T34 Apr 07 '08 edited Apr 07 '08

is that the same as a horizontal line, with 3 hypens (or 3 underscores) followed by a return/enter?

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u/AnteChronos Apr 07 '08

Yep. I tent to avoid the hyphen method because, if you're not paying attention, you risk creating a level 2 header, instead. I didn't realize that underscores could be used, and that's probably a better method as far as visually representing a horizontal line goes.

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u/[deleted] Apr 07 '08 edited Apr 07 '08 • Take My Silver

POOP HAHA!!!

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u/[deleted] Apr 07 '08

Quite possibly the only time a comment like that will be upvoted.

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u/[deleted] Apr 07 '08

I can say that is definitely not true.

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u/RexManningDay Apr 07 '08

Oh hell. It was in such big letters, I automatically obeyed.

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u/Etab Apr 08 '08

Wait, it was a command? Uh oh.

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u/011235 Jun 04 '10 edited Jun 04 '10

I'm going to shamelessly hijack a top post to show how to make a blank comment, an empty comment, a comment with nothing in it (as illustrated by my reply to this post).

Simply enter "## " as the entire post, minus the quotes, making sure to include the space at the end. Again, that's two pound signs and a space. Copypasta below:

##
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u/[deleted] Apr 10 '09

The saddest thing is that this was my highest single comment karma ever.

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u/Jushooter Apr 07 '08

๏̯͡๏﴿

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u/boredzo Apr 07 '08 edited Apr 07 '08

Simply starting text on a new line won't create a new paragraph; It will remain on the same line in the final, rendered version as the previous line.

If you really want to put a line break into one paragraph, put two spaces before the line break.

I am the Eggman••
They are the Eggmen••
I am the Walrus••
Goo goo g'joob

(where • = space)

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u/cltiew Apr 10 '09

Let me
Try that
I will see if this works.

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u/RockinHawkin Feb 08 '10

Haikus are easy
but sometimes they don't make sense refrigerator

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u/jon_titor Apr 07 '08 edited Apr 07 '08

Man, I hate header 2. I always get tricked into thinking it's a link

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u/[deleted] Apr 07 '08

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u/MercurialMadnessMan Nov 13 '08

You are a gentleman, and a scholar. Thank you for putting this effort in. I have wanted for SO LONG (ok, not that long) for something like this. Good to know it has already been done ;)

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u/[deleted] Apr 07 '08

Easily the longest post I've ever read.

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u/MercurialMadnessMan Dec 11 '08

What is this reddit beta you speak of?

I'm unsure of the process of how reddit became what it became

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u/AnteChronos Dec 11 '08 edited Dec 11 '08

What is this reddit beta you speak of?

You're using it! Notice that the post date for my comment is 8 months ago.

Back then, reddit didn't have any of this JavaScript submission magic that lets you post a comment without reloading the entire page. There was a beta version of reddit where you could, if you chose, use the new (now current) layout, but there were still bugs in the markdown rendering.

I've just been too lazy to go back and update my comment.

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u/MercurialMadnessMan Dec 11 '08 edited Dec 11 '08

Ahh... I see!

Sounds like the logical progression into "web 2.0"

All of these do work on the current version, though, right?

p.s. I know this is an old thread :)

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u/AnteChronos Dec 11 '08

All of these do work on the current version, though, right?

Yep. The only thing that has changed is how headers are rendered. The top level header used to be large and bold, and now it looks just like normal text.

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u/JasonDJ Apr 07 '08

I think I'm going to post all my comments in this format now.

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u/[deleted] Apr 10 '09

oh really?

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u/cltiew Apr 10 '09 edited Apr 10 '09 
I wish it was   ...   the default.

  There is just so much to be said for a:
       "Plain Text" option.

indeed.  So much.

(and on that note I think I'm making a bad example)

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u/do-un-to Apr 08 '08 edited Apr 08 '08

So that's what a blockquoted HR looks like. Weird.

Say, anyone notice that ampersand-denoted character entities no longer work (as of a month or so ago)? Doh! ™

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u/[deleted] Apr 08 '08

Yep. It fuxored some of my old comments.

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u/SarahC Feb 25 '10

I've seen really big fonts... how can I do that?

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u/[deleted] Jul 09 '10

They disabled big headers. The biggest you can naturally get is:

This big.

I did that with this:

### This big.

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u/SarahC Jul 09 '10

Thanks. =D

YAY!

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u/turkourjurbs Apr 07 '08

This was spectacular, thanks.

Why isn't this in Reddit's help system?

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u/masklinn Apr 07 '08

Why isn't this in Reddit's help system?

it is.

The basics are in the help box right next to the cancel button, and then if you go to the Reddit Help, click on commenting you can see a link to Markdown Syntax for the complete syntax of the system.

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u/Zai_shanghai Apr 08 '08

I found this tutorial to be about 1000 times more helpful and understandable than the Markdown Syntax link was.

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u/turkourjurbs Apr 07 '08

Oh geez. They need to make that a bit more obvious or preferably, put the entire above post in AS the help topic. You're right, thanks!

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u/dotrob Apr 07 '08

I prefer the Markdown "dingus" which includes a cheat-sheet and sandbox where you can test various Markdown formulations.

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u/liber8US Apr 07 '08

~♥~ LOVE IT! ~♥~ (¯v´¯)*.¸.*´ ¸.•´¸.•*¨) ¸.•*¨) (¸.•´ (¸.•´ .•´ ¸¸.•¨¯`•

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u/[deleted] Apr 07 '08

Oh god, no. AnteChronos, what have you done?

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u/liber8US Apr 07 '08

(¯`v´¯)

`*.¸.*´

¸.•´ ¸.•*¨ ) ¸.•*¨)

(¸.•´ (¸.•´ .•´ ¸¸.•¨¯`•

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u/Cronus6 Apr 09 '09

I'd always wondered but was too lazy to search for it.

Thanks.

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u/akita86 Oct 24 '09

Thank you!

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u/[deleted] Feb 02 '10

all i really want to do is type in green. i won't abuse it!

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u/VerteDinde Apr 07 '08

You'll probably do a lot of quoting with other redditors

Thank you so much. :). I wanted to know how to do that, but was afraid to ask.

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u/no_dawg Mar 23 '09

p.s. you're still a god

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u/[deleted] Apr 02 '09

No way to escape out angle brackets?

> The escape char comes up with it!

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u/cltiew Apr 10 '09 edited Apr 10 '09

<

<tag>text</tag>

>

&gt;

Well, I can't seem to get it to NOT post the text as-is, regardless of the >, <'s and other special characters. Did you have a problem with >'s or <'s?

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u/ironiridis Apr 30 '09

Rock the fuck on, man. This is really helpful.

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u/[deleted] Jun 22 '09

Thanks

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u/wickedcold Sep 03 '09

Bam, another save.

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u/andytronic Jan 28 '10

I ate my pizza too fast and now I have a tummy ache!

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u/Cannonstar Apr 09 '09

Upvote! Saving this post for future reference.

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u/[deleted] Sep 16 '09 edited Sep 16 '09

Alright!

  • Ask

  • Listen

  • ????

  • PROFIT!!!!

???????

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u/buffi Apr 07 '08

¿¿¿uʍop ǝpısdn ǝʇıɹʍ ı op ʍoɥ

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u/[deleted] Apr 07 '08

point a gun to your head and pull the trigger.

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u/[deleted] Apr 08 '08 edited Apr 08 '08

(: pǝʞɹoʍ ʇı

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u/[deleted] May 23 '10

do you copy and paste or something? I could see this as being useful.

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u/ketralnis Apr 07 '08

Note that reddit is using a custom markdown implementation that doesn't support everything that markdown does. (For starters, all valid HTML is valid markdown. This isn't the case on reddit)

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u/NoHandle Apr 07 '08 edited Apr 07 '08

fantastic

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u/[deleted] Jul 27 '09

Markup is the PArent

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u/[deleted] Jul 29 '09

Saving Markup Primer for future reference, thanks !

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u/[deleted] Oct 13 '09

Thank you. This is immensely useful!

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u/java999 Jan 29 '10

Horizontal rules? I don't even obey the vertical ones.

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u/zbaile1074 Mar 16 '10

saved this

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u/uber_troll Apr 21 '10

uber_troll

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u/[deleted] May 23 '10

How do you highlight text in yellow??? And also, I don't know if you know this, but how do you link to a certain subheader of a Wikipedia article? I think that one might be html, but I forget.

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u/omepiet Apr 07 '08 edited Apr 08 '08 
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                    /   _/

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u/AnteChronos Apr 08 '08 edited Apr 08 '08 
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u/Strauss_ismy_Grandpa Apr 07 '08 edited Apr 07 '08

№! YOU JUST OPENED UP PANDORA'S BOX

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u/oniony Apr 07 '08 edited Apr 07 '08

HMMM PANDORA'S BOX

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u/AnteChronos Apr 07 '08

What smells like blue?

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u/[deleted] Apr 08 '08

Did everything just taste purple for a second?

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u/[deleted] Apr 08 '08 edited Apr 08 '08

slurm?

PARTY!!!

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u/[deleted] Apr 07 '08 edited Apr 07 '08

Hey Phillip.

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u/ropers Apr 07 '08 edited Apr 07 '08

I've sometimes had trouble with Markdown's link parser/anchor HTML generator when using the standard [reddit!](http://reddit.com) Markdown link syntax:

1. Some sites, e.g. Wikipedia, often have brackets in their URLs, like so:

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B_(programming_language)#History](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B_(programming_language%29#History)

The trouble is that if you enter that URL in Markdown text, the brackets will prevent the anchor tag HTML from getting generated as intended, because the closing bracket is what Markdown uses to signify the end of the URI. So the Markdown parser generates garbled output. The solution is this: Within the round brackets containing the URL, use the URL-escaped %29 for the actual URL's closing bracket (and possibly %28 for the opening bracket).

2. Some URLs, e.g. those for Archive.org's Wayback Machine, include another http://... URL, like so:

http://web.archive.org/web/20050725010627/http://reddit.com/

This second http://... sequence also confuses Markdown's anchor tag generator when using the standard [reddit!](http://reddit.com) syntax. The solution is to use %3A instead of the second colon within the round brackets containing the URL.

%3A, %28 and %29 are not converted to :, ( and ) in regular Markdown source text, but they are URL-unescaped when used between the [reddit!](http://reddit.com) syntax's round brackets.

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u/AnteChronos Apr 07 '08 edited Apr 07 '08

Another solution to your first issue is to use the [text](URL) syntax, and then backslash-escape the mid-URL parentheses:

[History of the B Programming Language](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B_\(programming_language\)#History)

History of the B Programming Language

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u/oniony Apr 07 '08

Actually, the little round ones, ( and ), are parentheses. The square ones, [ and ], are brackets. The curly ones, { and } are braces.

I'm a compulsive pendant, sorry.

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u/[deleted] Apr 07 '08

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u/oniony Apr 07 '08

No, I mean I cannot stop swaying.

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u/pasbesoin Apr 07 '08

Anything between the backticks will be rendered in a proportional font

I think you mean fixed-width.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typeface#Proportion

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u/AnteChronos Apr 07 '08

You're absolutely right. Fixed.

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u/oniony Apr 07 '08

Width.

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u/gerg6111 Apr 07 '08

backticks....EWWW! Get them off!

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u/broken_hand Apr 07 '08

Why did you make this a self reddit and not just use the daringfireball.net link?

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u/AnteChronos Apr 07 '08 edited Apr 07 '08

I considered it, but I didn't think it was necessary to go into that level of detail, since I just wanted to present some of the basic formatting concepts. Things like reference-style links and inline images seemed unnecessary.

Also, I'm not convinced that everyone using reddit knows HTML, and the daringfireball syntax page gives all of the syntax in the form of "[this text] produces [this corresponding HTML]". I though that showing the source and the final displayed text would be more useful. Plus, this way you can see that, on reddit, Header 2 looks like a blue Header 4, which is certainly not the expected behavior.

Also, today's been really slow, and typing all of this up kept me busy ;-)

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u/blamecheney Apr 07 '08 
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< i say what what >
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u/satx Apr 07 '08

in the butt

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u/[deleted] Apr 08 '08 edited Apr 08 '08

# cowsay fuck yeah

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u/[deleted] Apr 07 '08

I've already purchased the Video Professor discs for this.

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u/ropers Apr 07 '08 edited Apr 07 '08

If you want to prevent Markdown's parser from converting a dot-delimeted number at the start of a line ("1.", "2.", "3.", etc.) as a numbered list and/or if you want to manually control the numbering, it's sufficient to escape the dot by using "1\.".

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u/oniony Apr 07 '08 edited Apr 07 '08

2. Very useful.

1. Thanks.

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u/buu700 Jan 25 '10

Thanks a lot ropers! I'm writing a book in Markdown and this really helped a lot for a small part.

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u/ropers Jan 25 '10

Out of curiosity, what software/platform do you use to write a book in markdown?

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u/buu700 Jan 25 '10 edited Jan 25 '10

When it comes time to publish, though, I'm thinking of trying to get a partnership with reddit to have it run through reddit's Markdown interpreter for the final version.

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u/ffualo Apr 07 '08

But how do you get that inverted 'b' that I've seen in some posts?

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u/kirun Apr 07 '08

bash.org link for those who've just joined the Internet.

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u/ffualo Apr 07 '08

...most of reddit...

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u/BeatnikDude Apr 07 '08 edited Apr 07 '08

☠

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u/colorred Apr 07 '08

evacuate reddit!

we have a toxic leak.

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u/[deleted] Jan 29 '10

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u/McMarthy_was_Liberal Apr 07 '08

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u/pillage Apr 08 '08

Or...How I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb

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u/thekrone Apr 07 '08

public void main(Strings argv[]){

System.out.println("Hello world!");

}

What language is this supposed to be? System.out.println would indicate Java, but public void main(Strings argv[]){ contradicts that.

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u/AnteChronos Apr 07 '08

It was actually just some pseudo-code based on Java. I may have gotten some C++ mixed in there, though. It's been a while since I've done any C++, but it still creeps into my code from time to time.

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u/thekrone Apr 07 '08 edited Apr 07 '08 
public static void main(String[] args){
    System.out.println("Hello world!");
}

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u/tintub Apr 08 '08

It's perfectly valid java, as long as you have a class called Strings

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u/thekrone Apr 09 '08

Okay, that's true. However, that method can't be the default main method which is run on application launch.

  • It is not static, and therefore can't be called in static context. You'd first have to initialize an Object of whatever class that contains that method, then call it explicitly.

  • It doesn't override the abstract method public static void main(String[] args)

However, you're right. It is valid Java syntax. You win!

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u/utbandit Apr 08 '08 edited Apr 08 '08

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u/guriboysf Apr 07 '08

I want strike-thru type.

Thanks.

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u/JonAce Apr 07 '08

Up'd and Saved.

Nice work!

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u/maaz Apr 08 '08

Bookmark'd

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u/hitmonval Apr 07 '08

Very useful. Thanks.

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u/monolithdigital Jan 19 '10

Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry.
Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry.

Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry.

  • Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry.

  • Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry.

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u/Walletau Jun 04 '10

Lorem Ipsum does not work that way!!!

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u/monolithdigital Jun 04 '10

It's not unionized labour, it does what I tell it to.

Edit: apeasement

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u/oncealurkerstillarep Jan 26 '10

Lets test this

new line?

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u/darksabrelord Jan 27 '10

  • item 1: lots of fun stuff

  • item 2: even more fun stuff

  • item 3: the last of the fun stuff

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u/[deleted] Jan 29 '10

< i say what what >

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u/fingertron Feb 23 '10

Something

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u/hobbers Feb 25 '10

♠ ♣ ♥ ♦

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u/[deleted] Feb 27 '10

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jfasdad asdasdasdas
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u/RetPallylol Mar 14 '10

()testtest123()

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u/RetPallylol Mar 14 '10

(*test1323)

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u/RetPallylol Mar 14 '10

tests 12345

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u/shagreddit Mar 14 '10

Something Else

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u/011235 Mar 25 '10 edited Mar 25 '10

Let's try out a trick!

Here is a link that you can't click in firefox!

Compare with a normal link.

blue text

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u/RetPallylol Apr 11 '10

  • bullete

  • bulletse

  • bullet?

  • bullets

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u/[deleted] Jun 01 '10

quote1 quote2 bold

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '10

test?

test

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u/cmunerd Jul 09 '10

  • test

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u/nigel182 Jul 20 '10

  • test

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u/[deleted] Aug 11 '10

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u/gmd393 Dec 03 '10 edited Dec 03 '10

Test Me

  • teest

  • tes

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u/elephant-skin Jul 12 '10

Hmm ... one thing I dont see here is how to add black out over the text, the kind that people use to hide spoilers in their texts. I searched some other websites about markdown, must be another method then?

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u/[deleted] Jul 19 '10

to hide spoilers you use the following method: spoiler

for example: spoiler

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u/[deleted] Oct 22 '10

This no longer works? curses!

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u/Swipecat Oct 30 '10

How about: [mouseover-spoiler](//"Darth Vader is Yoda's father")

which gives a popup warning (on Firefox at least) if you click on it:

mouseover-spoiler

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u/[deleted] Jul 14 '10

'BACON_TEST'

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u/[deleted] Jul 14 '10

'Extra_Bacon_test'

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u/shlinton Dec 24 '09

I just found this help page today.
I could never make this line appear as a second line.
Is this working?

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u/[deleted] Jul 20 '10

++

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u/friedsnails Aug 24 '10

you mean this dont you

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u/[deleted] Aug 05 '10

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u/[deleted] Aug 05 '10

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u/[deleted] Sep 22 '10

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u/keskival Jan 15 '11

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u/TardisDude Jul 07 '11

test

The fact is we didn't get along well until photography came into its own. Then motion pictures in the early twentieth century. Radio. Television. Things began to have mass." Montag sat in bed, not moving.

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u/arantius Apr 07 '08

IMO this should have started and ended at "see the official syntax guide".

Yeah, they use markdown. That and the REAL link is all we need.

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u/[deleted] Jun 24 '08

cool

the thing this is a test just for fun

  • does

  • this

  • work?!?!?!

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u/slacker22 Jun 01 '09 edited Jun 02 '09

Gay

Gay

Gay

Gay

Gay

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