mojilove

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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:


Table Column 1Column 2
I just kind of assumed Table syntax was listed in the cheatsheet because I forget it's not standard in markdown.Apparently it's not listed because it's not!
So now you know.
LeftCenteredRight
Left aligned text!Center aligned textRight aligned text!

(thanks @p4r4digm for the reminder!)

This is preformatted text. 

You can use this for stuff like multi-line HTML or markdown code blocks.

You can add footnotes like this.1 (Scroll to the end of the post to see it.) It creates a <hr> so fair warning that it adds a "read more" between the text and the footnotes if there isn't already one above. Put a --- elsewhere if that's a problem!

  • Checkbox lists exist!
  • Bear in mind you can't click them because markdown checkboxes typically aren't clickable.
  • But they look neat!

Highlighting exists!

Subscripting exists too.

And superscript as well!

| Table Column 1 | Column 2 |
|--------|-|
| I just kind of assumed Table syntax was listed in the cheatsheet because I forget it's not standard in markdown. | Apparently it's not listed. |
|So now you know.||

| Left | Centered | Right |
|:-----|:----:|------:|
| Left aligned text! | Center aligned text | Right aligned text! | 

` ` ` 
This is preformatted text. 

You can use this for stuff like multi-line HTML or markdown code blocks.
` ` ` (but without the spaces because otherwise it'd break this preformatted text example, haha)

You can add footnotes like this.[^1] (Scroll to the end of the post to see it.) It creates a `<hr>` so fair warning that it adds a "read more" between the text and the footnotes if there isn't already one above. Put a `---` elsewhere if that's a problem!

[^1]: This is appended at the end of the post as a footnote even though the markdown is in the middle of the post.

- [X] Checkbox lists exist!
- [ ] Bear in mind you can't click them because markdown checkboxes typically aren't clickable.
- [X] But they look neat!

<mark>Highlighting exists!</mark>

Sub<sub>scripting</sub> exists too.

And super<sup>script</sup> as well!

  1. This is appended at the end of the post as a footnote even though the markdown is in the middle of the post.


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in reply to @binary's post:

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!
| Try putting them in a table! |  |
|--------------------------------------|-----------------|
| ![](https://staging.cohostcdn.org/avatar/18471-fbc5ab59-f792-4c2f-813b-e2b0c8566b30-profile.jpg) | ![](https://staging.cohostcdn.org/avatar/18471-fbc5ab59-f792-4c2f-813b-e2b0c8566b30-profile.jpg) |

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!