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Memorandum of Formatting
I'm noticing an uptick in the number of posts where
pre-formatted
is being used over
Blockquote
Can we agree that blockquote is preferable?
Unlike **pre-formatted**
Blockquote allows ...
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votes
Formatting Sandbox – Please test stuff here
Trick no. 1: Headers
The biggest, baddest header
Header less important
Can this header be bold enough? Nope.
#The biggest, baddest header
## Header *less important*
### **Can this header be bold ...
10
votes
Formatting Sandbox – Please test stuff here
Working with Images
Changing the displayed size by adding a suffix
If you upload your image to Imgur, adding a character to the end of the image name before the extension will change the displayed ...
6
votes
Formatting Sandbox – Please test stuff here
Would you like
to make your text
look smaller
and smaller
and smaller
and smaller
and smaller?
Eeek!
# Would you like
## to make your text
**look smaller**
<sub>**and smaller**</sub> ...
6
votes
Formatting Sandbox – Please test stuff here
Did you know you can use HTML character escape codes?
You can use the name from the first column of that table :
— – ¶ … ↑ ↓ ← &...
6
votes
Accepted
In the future, can questions and answers support the <iframe> HTML tag?
Allowing <iframe> opens all kinds of security risks, I don't think Stack Exchange is going to do that.
Note that it is possible to link to a generated image; if I replace interactive_chart with ...
GlorfindelMod
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5
votes
Accepted
Guide to formatting ELL answers -- best practices?
In general, don't overuse formatting. If you can make do with a paragraph containing one italicized word and a "short" quote, don't turn it into a bulleted list with bold and italics and superscript ...
5
votes
Formatting Sandbox – Please test stuff here
# ¯\(ツ)/¯
# Does this thing appear at the centre?
5
votes
Formatting Sandbox – Please test stuff here
Working with block quotes
Separating quote blocks
> This is my first quote.
<!-- I want a blank line between them so I am using an HTML comment. This could be empty. -->
> This is my ...
4
votes
Formatting Sandbox – Please test stuff here
Testing the Tool tip,
is working for a link?
is working for the image?
4
votes
Formatting Sandbox – Please test stuff here
I can't delete it right away. So someone like @IͶΔ could read something embarrassing I write here and use it to blackmail me.
4
votes
Accepted
Is it just me or does this word [𝗹𝗶𝗸𝗲𝗹𝘆] look odd to you too?
Ԩ doesn’t have any special formatting applied either, it’s just a Unicode character copied from another source. Most 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞𝐥𝐲 that “𝗹𝗶𝗸𝗲𝗹𝘆“ is from a set like these
https://unicodelookup....
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votes
Accepted
How can I underline a text on ELL?
Quoting myself:
Underlining is used to designate links. That's all. If you need something, you can use the wealth of options that are supported in posts such as bold, italics, headers, block quotes, ...
LaurelMod
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votes
In the future, can questions and answers support the <iframe> HTML tag?
In any case, what HTML is supported is not a decision made on a site-by-site basis, but is made for the whole of Stack Exchange together. Any request to change what HTML is supported would need to be ...
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2
votes
Formatting Sandbox – Please test stuff here
Tables
A header
Another header
First
row
Second
row
| A header | Another header |
| -------- | -------------- |
| First | row |
| Second | row |
Left
Center
Right
...
2
votes
Attribution: the good and the bad
I mostly agree with Mari-Lou A's post but would like to add one further suggestion and one point of disagreement.
If you see a comment that would work well as an answer, it is polite to suggest ...
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1
vote
An Editing Manual
Back to top
Formatting
Use > to create blockquotes for example sentences, and quotes from sources, including, but not limited to, dictionary definitions, grammar articles, quotes from Google ...
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1
vote
An Editing Manual
Fixing up the tags
The purpose of tags is not to completely describe every nuance of the question. Tags should make it easy for people that are interested in answering or reading the answers to that ...
1
vote
Suggestion: Markup for an incorrect example
I sometimes use images, such as
Correct example here:
incorrect example here.
This practice is very common in the Wikipedia manual of style (MOS) pages. Remember that any markup should produce a ...
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