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 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.

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first

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Want a Cookie ?

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yes i do, where is the cookie?

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Can i get cookie too ?

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What about me? :D

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

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i WANT the cookie

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The cookie is a lie.

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The cookie will set you free!

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I'm late to the party but I still want a COOKIE

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Somebody speaked about COOKEISSSS

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There're never enuf cookies!

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

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What the hell? Where is spam?

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How do you find your threads?

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

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And if you don't remember your topic title?

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

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

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it was just for a playblink code ?

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

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

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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.

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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.

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

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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 :)

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

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

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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.

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

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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?

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

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

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So what did you do?

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

  • Bullet point.
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Oh! I think I got it now!

  • Try leaving one empty line before bullet point
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Yeah... it works! :) Thanks a lot for help.

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cool

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can't understand how can I make normal Line Break

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Neither do i...

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

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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 ?

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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?

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cool

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Nice

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Have:

  • game
  • another game

Want:

  • game
  • another game
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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.

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Shouldn't this thread be closed?

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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...

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  • Red
  • Green
  • Blue
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  • Y
  • G
  • B
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testing this

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  • test bulletpoint
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COME ALIVE!

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+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 :(

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+1

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+1

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+1

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

Nice post

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how does line break works? =(

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<table>
<tr>
<td>test</td>
</tr>
</table>

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Whoops, realized those were HTML tags...

code block test

code test

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test

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test 1

test 2
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  • 2
  • 3

Steam


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Shit happens

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<strong>test</strong>

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Somebody would tell me how to cross out a word?

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[test]

  • red
  • green
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Like this ?

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Testing
hello
<sub><sup><sub><sup>Tiny text</sup></sub></sup></sub>

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test :)

TEST

  • Test
  • Test
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Closed 5 years ago.