Feedback about SitePoint on Discourse

[TechnoBear]

I’m with you on Markdown - I’ve been struggling quite a bit with it. Does this post help at all?

Did you know... (about Discourse)

Did you know you can embed your code with highlighting? Okay, so I guess it is safe to assume that everyone knew you could do this, but do you know how to do it? The simplest method is to use backticks `, three of them to be exact (well six… but I’m jumping ahead here) on a single line, like so: ``` Followed by your code <a href=“mylink.htm”>My Link Text</a> Followed by three more backticks ` on a separate line. ``` Put it all together and you get: ``` <a href=“mylink.htm”>My L…

There’s also a topic here, where various folk have shared tips:

Displaying code

Is the only way to display code by manually indenting the lines by 4 spaces?

You can also hide the “preview” in the reply box, to get you a full-width box, and drag the top edge up to get yourself more vertical space.