Markdown.

[lapiii]

lapiii last edited by

I found these two links as I was searching for good markdown tools:

78 Tools for Writing and Previewing Markdown

BBCode To Markdown Converter

How you insert a link with text is:

bracket text bracket parentheses url parentheses

[A Former User]

A Former User last edited by

Thanks, but although this is all well and good, why on earth should we have to jump through hoops to post on this forum in the same way as we used to do natively on the old one?!

Whatever happened to the WYSIWYG principle?

I'm sure I could look up and learn all the markdown coding to be able to do things like text links, but why should I have to?
I hate to think what non-computer savvy people who now come here must think, when so many of the obvious and expected forum tools are missing, and the functionality has to be restored by manually putting in code!

I've tried really hard to get used to it, but what were the people at Opera thinking when they changed to this?!

[A Former User]

A Former User last edited by

What's happened to the other three posts that are supposedly in this thread after my last one, I can't see them?!

EDIT: It said there were five comments, now it's reverted to three again, which is correct.
??

[j5lx]

j5lx last edited by

I personally like Markdown very much because it’s syntax is easy to read even in unprocessed state and it’s much less verbose than BBCode. I still try to use it in other forums just to disappointedly notice that they support nothing but BBCode.

[vikingen]

vikingen last edited by

I think I had the third post in this thread, it's gone. I can't imagine any reason for it being deleted so I don't know what's going on.

[lapiii]

lapiii last edited by

How do you make a clickable thumbnail?

[sgunhouse]

sgunhouse Moderator Volunteer last edited by

Most obvious approach - a URL with an image where the text would be

bracket exclamation bracket alt text close bracket parnethesis thumbnail address close parenthesis close bracket parenthesis link address close parenthesis

(and they think this stuff is readable?)

[A Former User]

A Former User last edited by

Well I guess they do as they're not rushing to do anything to improve it!
Things like adding links and images to posts should be instantly available on a button, just like they are on every other web forum that I use.
Having to put code manually into posts is a nonsense!

[A Former User]

A Former User last edited by

[lapiii]

lapiii last edited by

Here a great Markdown Tables Generator. Examples:

Version information
Version	12.16
Build	1860
Platform	x64
System	Windows 7
Version information
---------------------	--------------------------
Version	21.0.1432.39
Update stream	Next
System	Windows 7 64-bit (WoW64)

[lapiii]

lapiii last edited by

Why didn't a line space show separating the tables?

[lapiii]

lapiii last edited by

Inline code can be put put between back ticks, e.g. code here

[lapiii]

lapiii last edited by

Checkout this text editor with buttons.

[A Former User]

A Former User last edited by

Thanks, but why are those buttons not available here?

My Website

1. List item one
2. List item two

[Deleted User]

Deleted User last edited by

Inline code can be put put between back ticks

Incorrect. This forum filters HTML brackets and elements from Markdowns's Inline code.
Yout cant post all code you need.

[sgunhouse]

sgunhouse Moderator Volunteer last edited by

Manually replace less than and greater than with HTML entity codes. Yes, it's ugly. but I did it previously.