Formatting hacks for forum posts

###If anyone has any forum post formatting hacks, please post them here!

I came across this Discourse Formatting Cheat Sheet that I found useful.

Some more:

  • Use 3 of these around markup you want to appear: `
  • Strikethrough text by typing <del> text you want to format </del>
  • underline text by typing: <ins> text you want to format </ins>
  • Read this for how to center images in text
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I have no idea what formatting is used on this forum however if it is based on bbcode, you can find a full reference at www.bbcode.org

A more straight forward reference can be found at https://www.phpbb.com/community/help/bbcode

bill

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Discourse supports both Markdown and (some) bbcode. Here’s a reference of what is can do: https://meta.discourse.org/t/post-format-reference-documentation/19197/2

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