For anyone else who hasn't figured this out yet and wants more formatting without busting out too much in the way of HTML or going down the CSS crime rabbit hole: Beyond what's displayed on the cheatsheet, a fair amount of extended markdown syntax is built into Cohost. If you don't want to experiment to see what on there made it in:
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This is really useful, thank you! I've been learning some very basic markdown to post better on here, but is there a way to, say, make a kind of gallery-style image layout for multiple pictures?
Taking Tumblr's example, on web you can upload images and sort of arrange them side-by-side so you don't get a super long scrolling post when you've got more than 1 or 2 pics clustered together. Is there a way to replicate that?
This won't 100% do exactly what you want but:
| Try putting them in a table! | |
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Markdown doesn’t offer that, but if you attach multiple images to a post using cohost’s built in uploader, they’ll appear in a gallery much like you describe. You’re subject to Cohost’s per-image filesize limits if you do that though, which can be relaxed significantly by subscribing to Cohost Plus!.
Beyond that, you’ll need to break out the HTML/CSS. @nex3 has a delightful image grid generator that she wrote linked from her profile. Here’s a direct link.
Thank you for this! At the moment I can't use the native cohost uploader for some reason (it just gets stuck on "uploading" forever) so I've hosting images externally and linking them through markdown tags in my posts.
But this helps too!
Nice round up! Re tables - I often end up using this generator as I can input copypasta from a spreadsheet and can copy the markdown into cohost more easily.
Table generators are a very good move, yeah. Re: markdown editors deepdwn does tables really well too, it auto-flexes each cell as you type in it.
Also worth mentioning table cell alignment with |-:|, |-:-|, |:-| !!
Oh, yeah, that's true! I always forget you can do that.
E: Added that in, thanks again!