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Paul Dietrich
Paul Dietrich
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Posted by Paul Dietrich
Paul Dietrich
4,557 Points

Forum Code Textbox?

Hello all,

I've seen some people have a section in their post (a slightly different colored region) that contains their code. Is there a feature that allows me to place html (or other) coding language within a textbox?

4 Answers

Alan Johnson
Alan Johnson
7,625 Points
Alan Johnson
Alan Johnson
7,625 Points

Hi Paul,

Yes! Absolutely. What you'll want to do is include a code fence (``` - three backticks) on the lines before and after your code. Then it'll come out looking like this:

puts "Hello World!"
dxoxiifezd
dxoxiifezd
19,729 Points
dxoxiifezd
dxoxiifezd
19,729 Points

You can use Markdown syntax.

See below when you are writing a post.

James Barnett
James Barnett
39,199 Points
James Barnett
James Barnett
39,199 Points

@Paul - In markdown 4 spaces will format your code block as: code goes here

In a sentence you can also enclose a <tag> with the backticks symbol ` as @Alan previously mentioned