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Differences in lemmy and kbin markdown and some non apparent markdown (kbin.social)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by FoolishSamurai@kbin.social to c/kbinMeta@kbin.social
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Markdown that does not appear in the reply box:

Strikethrough:

some ~~strikethrough~~ text

some ~~strikethrough~~ text

Horizontal Rule:

***

Table with alignment:

||X|Y|Z|
|--------|:---|:----:|---:|
|1|X1|Y1|Z1|
|2|X2|Y2|Z2|

X Y Z
1 X1 Y1 Z1
2 X2 Y2 Z2

Codeblock:

`**codeblock**`  
`enclose in 3 backticks`  

**codeblock**
enclose in 3 backticks


   **codeblock**
   indent with 4 spaces


**codeblock**
indent with 4 spaces

Heading 1:

# heading 1

heading 1

Heading 2:

## heading 2

heading 2

(Heading 3 you get when you press the H button in the reply box)

Markdown that kbin does not yet support but lemmy does:

Spoilers:

hidden or nsfw
spoilers here

hidden or nsfw
spoilers here

Superscript:

some ^superscript^ text

some ^superscript^ text

None amongst kbin, lemmy and reddit support subscript as far as I can tell.

What this page looks like in kbin
What this page looks like in lemmy

More info:
https://commonmark.org/help/
https://spec.commonmark.org/dingus/

https://join-lemmy.org/docs/en/users/02-media.html
https://calckey.social/mfm-cheat-sheet

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[–] FoolishSamurai@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

After posting this, it seems like using newline (\ or two spaces) is a bit off. When placed after tables and codeblocks it displays the backslash. And the two spaces method doesn't actually do anything. A workaround is that you can put   and it will insert a space and newline.