How to Post Using Markdown

As an alternative to BBCode, this forum also supports Markdown formatting in posts.

Note: the syntax below is standard Markdown as a starting draft — check it against your actual MDParser rules before publishing, since your mod may support a subset or have its own quirks (e.g. around nested formatting or the security-review fixes already applied).

Basic formatting

You type	You get
**bold text**	bold text
*italic text*	italic text
~~strikethrough~~	strikethrough
`inline code`	inline code

Headings

# Heading 1
## Heading 2
### Heading 3

Lists

- First item
- Second item

1. Step one
2. Step two

Links and images

[link text](https://example.com)
![alt text](https://example.com/image.png)

Blockquotes

> This is a quote

Code blocks

```
your code here
```

Mixing with BBCode

[Fill in: can Markdown and BBCode be used in the same post, or is it one-or-the-other per post/board? Recommend clarifying this since it's the first thing users will ask.]

Known limits

[Fill in: any character/nesting limits carried over from the security review — e.g. anything around link/image attributes or blockquote nesting depth worth mentioning to users.]