How to post code on the forum - For absolute beginners

[Mykle1]

@sdetweil said in How to post code on the forum - For absolute beginners:

@Mykle1 how did you do that? (the two steps!)

?

I’m lost.

[sdetweil]

@Mykle1 you said

Your code posts should look like this:

so, how do they do that?

1. mark the text of the ‘code’
2. hit the button above the editor that looks like </>

[Mykle1]

@sdetweil

Hit the button above the editor first.

That gives you the two sets of backticks, In between them, already highlighted, are the words, “Post code here”.

and you get this

[sdetweil]

@Mykle1 i like to write the text, add the code in between the words, then mark the code sections…

[Mykle1]

@sdetweil

I never use the button. Learned backticks early on. Was so happy about it that I wrote the tutorial Jun 28, 2017, 7:40 PM