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idan ben yair
idan ben yair
10,288 Points

when posting a comment my code is not being displayed

Hi guys,

When I try yo post an answer in the forum and I try to input a piece of code, the code is not being displayed.. I input:

***HTML


and my HTML code does not appear. Can someone tell me what I'm doing wrong? thanks!

3 Answers

Ben Falk
Ben Falk
3,167 Points

Make sure to use three backticks before and after the code. That is a backtick, " ` " (same key as the tilde: "~"), not a star or single quote.

idan ben yair
idan ben yair
10,288 Points

Ohhhh lol! Thanks!!! I didn't realize that, thanks for the help!

Michael Hulet
Michael Hulet
47,913 Points

To add on to what Ben said, also, make sure you're using all lowercase when specifying the language. In other words, write html, and not HTML