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mrx3
8,742 PointsI would like some help with posting html code please.
I noticed on here some people can post code from code pen. I was wondering how do you do that? I recently made a webpage, and I would like to post the code, and have some people review it. I have tried to use the tick way ''' but still can't get my code to show up correctly. I happened to see some people posting code in what appears to be code pen. Thanks in advance for any help.
7 Answers
Natasha McDiarmid
11,400 PointsThis is the backtick: http://i.stack.imgur.com/TOn1U.png
No shift. Just hit that key three times.
Natasha McDiarmid
11,400 PointsIt's likely not codepen if it looks like this:
<body>test</body>
You enclose your code in 3 backticks. These things --> `
Natasha McDiarmid
11,400 PointsIt doesn't appear until you post it. You want to use the ticks only not the arrow. I just typed that to show you the tick.
This is how you set it up. Try breaking it up to separate lines, too:
[three ticks here] <br /> your code here <br /> [three ticks here] <br />
Submit. It should appear. If it isn't, you are either typing in the wrong type of ticks or not enough.
Bob Sutherton
20,160 PointsI was a little confused at first because I didn't know what a back tick actually was. I confused it with a "regular" tick. The back tick is on the same button as ~. Except to make ~ you have to use the shift button. It's not --->text---> but
Wrap your code with 3 backticks (```) on the line before and after. If you specify the language after the first set of backticks, that'll help us with syntax highlighting
mrx3
8,742 Pointsyeah that's what it looks like, so I enclose the code in back ticks.
Mine doesn't show up though.
<body>Text</body>
Bob Sutherton
20,160 PointsWhat is happening, I think, is that he is probably not putting the back ticks on a separate line. You don't wrap them like quotes, but put them on their own line.
mrx3
8,742 PointsThank you both, I got it. Mine doesn't have the black background but it shows the text. I'm such a dunce. Thank you both again.