Formatting Help FAQ

61 Comments - Created by lokonopa (+18/-0) 1 year ago

Hello community,

I apologize for not bringing this FAQ over to SteamTrades. I thought members should see it on the SteamGifts forum, but I've been PM'd a couple of times how to use style in threads.

This list should do a lot for the basics and cg added this link to properly use the Markdown syntax. HTML tags are excluded.

Note: Quoting, or blockquoting, is currently not possible.

Note: Tables do not work on SteamGifts.com

Note: Inline images have been disabled. Thread.


  • Creating a link

Your text between brackets; your link between parenthesis.

Example: [like this](http://www.steamgifts dot com)

Note An alternative method that turns the link into a hyperlink by surrounding your link with angle brackets < and > does not work on SteamGifts.com.

New Note: Alt-text does not work in links. You cannot use [](/ "Example") in your links.

  • Bold text

Use two sets of double asterisks as open and closing tags. **

  • Italics

Use two sets of a single asterisk as open and closing tags or use underscores. * or _

Note: You can make text bold and italics by using three asterisks instead.

  • Code text

Use the ` as opening and closing tags.

Example

  • Bullet points

Use one asterisk or hyphen as the beginning of a sentence, followed by a space. Examples are all up in this post.

  • Horizontal line

Use at least three hyphens on a new line. "---"

  • Code block

Example:

 Five spaces on a new line.
  • Line Breaks

The easiest way to create a line break is to end a sentence with two spaces.

 Example: This would be  ~Two blank spaces. 
          an example.

Then you will
have this.

  • Headers

Examples:

 Header 1
 =========

 Header 2
 ---------

Becomes:

Header 1

Header 2

or:

Alternative:

 # Header 1
 ## Header 2
 ##### Header 5

Becomes:

Header 1

Header 2

Header 5

Markdown Tutorial Page.

Madison69 (+33/-0) (1 year ago)

first

Want a Cookie ?

TheNomadicViking (+14/-0)

(1 year ago)

yes i do, where is the cookie?

Madison69 (+33/-0)

(1 year ago)

Can i get cookie too ?

Yar0 (+11/-1)

(1 year ago)

What about me? :D

Necroted (+1/-1)

(7 months ago)

Yar0 and his minion Necroted got your cookie, and you should fight your way to get the cookie back. Mission starts immediatly.

actualwave (+79/-1)

(6 months ago*)

i WANT the cookie

MrVinny1113 (+11/-0)

(2 months ago)

The cookie is a lie.

LaBoiteAGogo (+14/-0)

(1 month ago)

The cookie will set you free!

froizki (+9/-0)

(1 month ago)

Memoir (+14/-0) (11 months ago)

I'm surprised there aren't more comments in here.

Hinar (+1/-0) (11 months ago)

What the hell? Where is spam?

riem37 (+1/-0) (11 months ago)

How do you find your threads?

Your own threads? Just do a search on the top with the topic title you made.

Yatterman (+77/-1)

(11 months ago)

And if you don't remember your topic title?

infromatica (+42/-0)

(2 months ago)

DreadPirateR (+71/-0) (11 months ago)

why would a post of mine have been closed when i didnt close it ?

If it was related to something against the rules, it was probably closed.

Yatterman (+77/-1)

(11 months ago)

it was just for a playblink code ?

DreadPirateR (+71/-0)

(11 months ago)

Yup, against the rules. They count as a referral link.

Yatterman (+77/-1)

(11 months ago)

ah ok no problem, thanks for clearing that up :D

DreadPirateR (+71/-0)

(11 months ago*)

darkmsn98 (+2/-0) (10 months ago*)

test like this

actualwave (+79/-1) (10 months ago)

Why you wont use Wiki markup? This will bring standartized formatting with wikipedia and all wikimedia sites. And it's pretty similar to what you are doing here.

CasualKilla (+27/-0) (10 months ago)

Didn't want to start a new thread, sorry if it doesnt quite match the topic. Is there a way to search your created threads, because if no-one replies to your threads then it can become a huge hastle to find them.

thekillingdollar (+5/-5) (9 months ago)

hi

thekillingdollar (+5/-5) (9 months ago)

oh

DennisGG (+36/-2) (9 months ago)

Thank you for this, was confused for a while :]

MillBridge101 (+108/-0) (9 months ago)

Hey admins, you shoud make a botton that says something like: "Created Threats", or something like that.. So people could find their own threats much faster :) Just saying :)

Dimios (+21/-0) (9 months ago)

test [like this](http://www.steamgifts dot com)

Dimios (+21/-0) (9 months ago)
Dimios (+21/-0) (9 months ago)
Dimios (+21/-0) (9 months ago)

for some strange reason it works in the comments but it fails to work at threads (50% probability of success or less)

Make sure the URL in the brackets starts with 'http://', not just 'www.something.com', or the system will fail to see it as a valid link.

ZothOmmog (+138/-0)

(9 months ago)

I just realized that I shouldnt put any spaces before and after the link

Dimios (+21/-0)

(9 months ago)

Devirk (+15/-0) (9 months ago)

I can't make bullet points in my thread. I've started the line with asterisk followed by space and then my text and it doesn't work. Any ideas how to fix that?

Same here... It doesn't work :(

Contributor (+28/-0)

(7 months ago)

keep on trying, I have solved this somehow...

Devirk (+15/-0)

(7 months ago)

So what did you do?

Contributor (+28/-0)

(7 months ago)

I have no idea. Just try re-editing all over again and hope that everything works fine.

  • Bullet point.

Devirk (+15/-0)

(7 months ago*)

Oh! I think I got it now!

  • Try leaving one empty line before bullet point

Devirk (+15/-0)

(7 months ago)

Yeah... it works! :) Thanks a lot for help.

Contributor (+28/-0)

(7 months ago)

SlappyBag (+51/-0) (9 months ago*)

cool

J7hack (+103/-1) (8 months ago)

can't understand how can I make normal Line Break

Neither do i...

Ps1d3r (+111/-2)

(8 months ago)

Line Break?
Like this?
Just type double space at the end of a line

Devirk (+15/-0)

(7 months ago)

Seth (+2/-1) (7 months ago)

Hi guys,

Need help to understand how to post a link in a reply to a topic. Like, make this www.google.com a clickable link ?

FaithNoMore82 (+34/-0) (5 months ago*)

It doesn't
work this line break thing
testing
testing Edit: Now i get it, but how do you make blank line?

Can somebody tell

Edit: It works here but not in my thread, how comes?

martouf181 (+2/-0) (4 months ago)
Vacry (+1/-0) (4 months ago*)

cool

Vacry (+1/-0) (4 months ago*)

Nice

jakobwells (+1/-0) (3 months ago*)

Have:

  • game
  • another game

Want:

  • game
  • another game
KagaNyan (+20/-0) (3 months ago)
CyberMarco (+70/-0) (3 months ago)

PSA

There is an impersonator trying to scam you using my name. Please take a look at this thread and warn as much people as you can. Thank you.

LFLFM (+0/-0) (3 months ago)

Shouldn't this thread be closed?

some use

or perhaps, it could be used to test ou some formatting :-)
Yeah this is a bit bugged... it confuses horizontal line with heading2


There! It doesn't if you leave an empty line.
linky
Should be noted that links require the HTTP part...

LFLFM (+0/-0)

(3 months ago*)

Qrt (+1/-0) (3 months ago)
  • Red
  • Green
  • Blue
arzjee (+0/-0) (2 months ago)
  • Y
  • G
  • B
soullessj (+31/-0) (2 months ago*)

testing this

JurgenKesker (+0/-0) (1 month ago)
  • test bulletpoint
le4slie (+32/-0) (1 month ago)

COME ALIVE!

Leezeebub (+10/-0) (1 month ago)

+1 for an option to find your own thread.

It would also be massively helpful to have an option to find a specific users thread. Typing their name in the search box does nothing :(

+1

xXephis (+7/-0)

(17 hours ago*)

SteamGifter (+14/-0) (1 week ago)

+1

I just don't get how to use TITLES they seem to change random

Nice post