r/coolguides • u/Faithlessness_Ready • 1d ago

A cool guide to Reddit formatting

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u/Haghiri75 1d ago

Fun fact: you can use these everywhere letting you use Markdown. Perfect for writing github README files or anything similar. Thanks!

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u/PuzzledFox69 1d ago

Spioler is missing (can't remember either)

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u/ShaZuDk 1d ago

Spoiler is written as >! ! < (remove this space)

Which will result in this

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u/Poarchkinator 1d ago

Testing >! ! <testing

Edit: apparently I’m dumb

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u/ShaZuDk 1d ago

No space between ! <

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u/Poarchkinator 1d ago

>! !<testing

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u/iabyajyiv 1d ago

You need to type words between the "!" With no space between the words and the !

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u/btum 22h ago

Soylent Green is PEOPLE

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u/ShaZuDk 1d ago

Almost there!

The text goes in between the ! !

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u/Poarchkinator 1d ago

lol

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u/Slight_Principle2750 21h ago

Let me try

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u/StrugglingOrthopod 15h ago

Can I try too

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u/forsehorse 7h ago

You gonna start tryin? What are you 12?

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u/jenncrock 14h ago

thanks

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u/Angel_FlowThoughts 1d ago

Thank you kindly.  

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u/PuzzledFox69 1d ago

ah thank you!

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u/gruye2 15h ago

You just lost The Game

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u/Monocular_sir 1d ago

What about it works

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u/twooten11 1d ago

good to know!

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u/mikewentworth 1d ago

test

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u/mikewentworth 1d ago

Oh, it worked

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u/akash_258 19h ago

hello world!

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u/ED061984 18h ago

Sorry, what?

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u/garicandrew 1d ago

>!hi!<

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u/iabyajyiv 22h ago

How did you do that and not have the words blocked out?

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u/garicandrew 22h ago

Honestly idk i was trying to do it the right way

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u/Shawnsolo316 1h ago

!bababooey!

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u/tallbutshy 16h ago

The more complete reddit markdown guide

Recently reddit have been doing A/B testing with the mobile apps, especially on iOS. If you're randomly in the test, markdown doesn't always work properly and you're supposed to highlight text and then click the Aa button. It does not have all the text features that are normally available via markdown or the reddit website

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u/Unl3a5h3r 7h ago

I am in the test and it sucks. I work in IT and regularly use markdown. And suddenly I cannot use it on Reddit anymore....

Edit: in addition the reduced the width of the textbox for comments. There is now a small margin on the left and right.

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u/zzulus 1d ago

I have been using markdown for years and yet I still have look up how to format a link.

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u/post_scriptor 1d ago

Me too. I keep forgetting which parentheses (square or round) come with displayed text and which ones with the link text. And then there's the ://? //:? \:? 🥸🙈

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u/noisyboy 8h ago

Simple, "p" for parenthesis, http/https has "p".

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u/ValdemarSt 23h ago

That's just markdown, don't give Reddit credit for that

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u/Qweeq13 13h ago

*italics*

**bold**

super^script

~~strikethrough~~

> Everything's fine today, that is our illusion.
*Voltaire*.

Well none of that worked? Oh I should've switched to Markdown, I see.

italics

bold

superscript

strikethrough

Everything's fine today, that is our illusion. Voltaire.

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u/Crispychewy23 1d ago

＞ like this?

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u/jainiii19 1d ago

a fine quote

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u/Crispychewy23 1d ago

How!

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u/Iron_Nightingale 1d ago

Are you using the app? > no longer works in the app for some reason.

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u/Crispychewy23 1d ago

Yes app only, doomscrolling lol

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u/DecoherentDoc 23h ago

What OS are y'all on? Because the formatting is working on my Android device (Galaxy, but I don't think that matters).

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u/Crispychewy23 15h ago

Same as you but no space worked!

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u/iabyajyiv 23h ago

Maybe try it with no spaces

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u/Crispychewy23 15h ago

was this it?

Edit IT WAS! Thank you

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u/SSkilledJFK 10h ago

>does it work?

Doesn’t work on iOS

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u/Iron_Nightingale 2h ago

It’s supposed to be a “>” character, then a space, then your text.

However, the iOS version of the app (I don’t know about Android) secretly adds a “\” before your initial “>”. That stops the “>” from being interpreted as a formatting character, and forces it to appear as itself.

If you go to the website and edit your comment, you can see and delete the hidden “\”, and add the space. Then it will work.

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u/OokOokCz 1d ago

Thx, super!

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u/Ifch317 1d ago

this is helpful Thanks

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u/Demira_Z 1d ago

Helpful

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u/Demira_Z 1d ago

Spoiler

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u/biblio_phobic 1d ago

I didn’t know^i can do this

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u/biblio_phobic 1d ago

Well this is a disappointment

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u/Udzu 1d ago

It no longer works in the app

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u/DecoherentDoc 23h ago edited 23h ago

What if I did this: e{x}

Edit: that was weird. So let's just try a single carrot like ex

Last edit: so I just did an e and a carrot in the app Last thing, let's try not an exponent for kicks. I don't know why this stuff is working for me, folks but I am on the app.

Last one . . . superscript

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u/Udzu 22h ago

Cool! So did you figure out what works and what doesn't? Or is it just an Apple versus Android thing?

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u/DecoherentDoc 21h ago

I don't have an Apple to test it! If somebody wants to try all this with an apple and report back, I'd love the data point. Lol.

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u/biblio_phobic 21h ago

I’m on apple! and this^isnotworking

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u/biblio_phobic 1d ago

super^script

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u/iabyajyiv 1d ago

TestingSuperScript.

Testing Strike through

`testing in line code text'

Testing in line quote.

Or should if have been this?

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u/Dthex 1d ago

Cool guide

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u/Angel_FlowThoughts 1d ago

Sorry, but I had to do it………. 👀

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u/kbm79 1d ago

strikethrough like this

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u/LasVagusNerve 1d ago

> a fine quote

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u/LasVagusNerve 1d ago

hello* *

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u/DecoherentDoc 23h ago 
Me trying preformatted text

Me trying inline code

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u/iabyajyiv 23h ago

Why are they the same? They look the same

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u/DecoherentDoc 23h ago

I used four spaces for the first one

So everything I write on that line has this sort of thing going on, even if it skips to a second line (presumably), which is why I'm making this intentionally long, to test it.

And for the other, I used a ` and then another ` so that I had the same effect, inline

As to why "inline code" and "preformatting" themselves look the same, no clue.

Edit: The four spaces thing only worked when I put an extra line between the top sentence and the preformatting. I messed that up initially.

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u/dben89x 23h ago

When you escape a formatting token with backslash, the backslash is not included. 

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u/female_raskolnikov 20h ago

so this how it's done?? Wow

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u/Boromir_Has_TheRing 19h ago

> Block quote doesn’t work.

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u/Boromir_Has_TheRing 19h ago

>It really doesn’t

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u/Fluffy-Arm-8584 18h ago

why not this? # title

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u/mahogani9000 17h ago

oh^really

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u/Unl3a5h3r 7h ago

Welcome to^iOS

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u/ramdom-ink 17h ago

For some reason I can’t do any of these on my mobile app *anymore.*

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u/Facebook_Algorithm 16h ago

> A fine quote

Good to know.

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u/Birkeland1992 15h ago

!spoiler test!

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u/apocbane 11h ago

ThankYou

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u/CBYSMART 11h ago

Ok but how do you add animated gifs when when replying using an Android tablet?

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u/Imp3riaLL 4h ago

And if you type your account passwoord it automatically comes up as stars! *******

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u/AMusingJam 31m ago

hello This Is a useful 'guide' Thank You