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* <code>>>></code> escapes emoji (haven't had time to explore in order to describe it precisely) | * <code>>>></code> escapes emoji (haven't had time to explore in order to describe it precisely) | ||
==Previews== | ==Previews== | ||
− | To display a link without Discord also inserting a preview, surround the URL with angle brackets: <<nowiki>https://htyp.org</nowiki>>. The angle brackets will not be displayed, and preview will be suppressed. | + | To display a link without Discord also inserting a preview, surround the URL with angle brackets: <<nowiki>https://htyp.org</nowiki>>. The angle brackets will not be displayed, and preview will be suppressed, but the URL will be presented as a link. |
* Note: Discord's settings refer to the preview as an "embedded link". Previews of links pasted into a discussion can be turned off by revoking this privilege. | * Note: Discord's settings refer to the preview as an "embedded link". Previews of links pasted into a discussion can be turned off by revoking this privilege. |
Revision as of 13:14, 22 February 2022
Discord text formatting
Text formatting is similar to a subset of Markdown, although there are differences:
- bold is
**two asterisks**
- italic is
*one asterisk*
or_one underscore_
- They are rendered exactly the same (using <em>) but parsed differently: "a*b*c" becomes abc but a_b_c is left unformatted.
- underline is
__two underscores__
strikeis~~two tildes~~
code
(fixed-pitch inline unformatted text) is`backticks`
- multiple lines of code can be started with three backticks at the beginning of a line:
``` code lines code lines ```
- the initial backticks can have a language designator afterwards, for syntax highlighting:
```php php code... ```
>
(right-angle plus a space) will cause the following paragraph to be indented with a vertical bar- spoiler text is
||two pipes||
: this causes the text to be obscured until clicked on (similar to this but requiring a click rather than mouse-hover)
To display characters that would otherwise be treated as formatting, escape them with a backslash:
\*
will display as*
\_
will display as_
- This does not seem to work with backticks (
`
), however. >>>
escapes emoji (haven't had time to explore in order to describe it precisely)
Previews
To display a link without Discord also inserting a preview, surround the URL with angle brackets: <https://htyp.org>. The angle brackets will not be displayed, and preview will be suppressed, but the URL will be presented as a link.
- Note: Discord's settings refer to the preview as an "embedded link". Previews of links pasted into a discussion can be turned off by revoking this privilege.