What You Need To Know About Markdown In Student Edge Forums

Markdown is an easy way to apply simple formatting to comments and posts in forums without the need to know any real code. It doesn't do anything too fancy, but it does give you some great tools to help get your ideas across and share a little more.

So, how does markdown work?

Markdown, basically, allows you to add special characters at the start or around your text, formatting it as you please.

The basics:

 

Type...	To get...
**Bold**	Bold
*Italics*	Italics
* Bullets * Bullets * Bullets	Bullets Bullets Bullets
1. Numbered Bullets 2. Numbered Bullets 3. Numbered Bullets	Numbered Bullets Numbered Bullets Numbered Bullets
!youtube[Title](https://youtu.be/lPQFWEl5YkE)	Paste the share link from YouTube between the round brackets
[Link Text](https://url.com)	Link Text
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