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Markdown Editing

Style your posts and comments with markdown text options

Jacques Reulet avatar
Written by Jacques Reulet
Updated over 3 months ago

Overview

Style and format text. Embed code, videos, and images.

  • Markdown works for both posts and comments.

  • Just write your raw markdown syntax using the guide below and submit.

We support the following syntax options for text formatting:

Element

Markdown Syntax

Example output

Heading

# Heading

Heading

Bold

**Bold text**

Bold text

Italic

*Italicized text*

Italic text

Ordered list

1. First item

2. Second item

3. Third item

  1. First item

  2. Second item

  3. Third item

Unordered list

- First item

- Second item

- Third item

  • First item

  • Second item

  • Third item

Code (Single-line)

`Line of code`

Line of code

Code (Multi-line)

```

Block

of

code

```

Block
of
code

Link

[Link](https://canny.io)

Link

Image

![](https://image.url)

Video

![](https://video.url)

Here's the result!

Things to note:

  • To keep things simple, there's no preview mode or formatting toolbar.

  • When using multi-line code, blank lines are collapsed by default. Adding a "space" character will allow you to have a blank line.

  • Embedding videos supports videos hosted on YouTube, Vimeo, Loom, & Wistia.

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