Markdown help

Posts are written in Markdown: plain text with a few marks for formatting. The toolbar buttons insert the marks for you. The button shows how the post will look, the button shows the text and the result side by side, and gives the editor the whole screen.

You typeYou get
Lines and paragraphs
Enter starts a new line.
Like this.

A blank line starts a new paragraph.

Enter starts a new line.
Like this.

A blank line starts a new paragraph.

Bold, italic, struck out Or select words and use the B, I and S buttons.
**bold**, *italic*, ~~struck out~~

bold, italic, struck out

Headings One # per level; use ## or ### in posts.
## A heading
### A smaller heading

A heading

A smaller heading

Links A web address on its own becomes a link too.
[LXer](https://lxer.com/) or just https://lxer.com/

LXer or just https://lxer.com/

Images In members' posts an image is shown as a link to the picture.
![Tux](https://lxer.com/images/tux.png)

[image: Tux]

Lists
- apples
- pears
  - two spaces indent a sub-item

1. first
2. second
  • apples
  • pears
    • two spaces indent a sub-item
  1. first
  2. second
Quotes The Quote link on a forum post or mail fills this in for you.
> Someone else's words.

My answer.

Someone else's words.

My answer.

Code Backticks for a few words; three backticks on their own lines around a block.
Run `uname -r` to see the kernel.

```
sudo dnf upgrade
reboot
```

Run uname -r to see the kernel.

sudo dnf upgrade
reboot
Tables The | characters do not need to line up.
| Distro | Version |
|--------|---------|
| Fedora | 45 |
| Debian | 14 |
Distro Version
Fedora 45
Debian 14
Math LaTeX between $ signs; $$ on their own lines for a displayed formula.
Inline: $E = mc^2$

$$
\int_0^1 x^2\,dx = \frac{1}{3}
$$

Inline: E = mc^2

\int_0^1 x^2\,dx = \frac{1}{3}

Footnotes The note appears at the end of the post.
A claim.[^1]

[^1]: The source.

A claim.1

  1. The source. ↩

Showing the characters themselves A backslash before * _ # ` $ shows the character. HTML is shown as text, never run.
\*not italic\* and <b>tags</b> stay as typed

*not italic* and <b>tags</b> stay as typed

Older posts keep the format they were written in. When you edit one, it stays in that format.