Formatting help

Wiki pages and comments are written in Markdown, which CommonMark explains, with a few additions that boorus use. Here is what you can write, and how it shows.

Write To show

Emphasis.

*italic*, **bold**, and ~~struck out~~

italic, bold, and ~~struck out~~

Each line break shows. A blank line starts a new paragraph.

First line
second line

A new paragraph

First line
second line

A new paragraph

Links. Web addresses link by themselves.

[the site](https://example.com) or https://example.com

the site or https://example.com

Wiki pages, by title, with other text to show if you like.

[[Black Cat]] and [[character:saturn|Saturn]]

Black Cat and Saturn

A post, by its number.

>>123

>>123

A spoiler, hidden until pointed at or focused.

The butler did it: ||it was the gardener||

The butler did it: it was the gardener

A quote, with a space after the >.

> Quoted text

Without the space, >text stays as it is.

Quoted text

Without the space, >text stays as it is.

Lists.

- one
- two

1. first
2. second

first
second

Code.

`inline code`

```
lines of code
```

inline code

lines of code

Headings.

## A heading
### A smaller one

A heading

A smaller one

Tables.

| Name | Posts |
| - | - |
| Saturn | 12 |

Name	Posts
Saturn	12

Images show from this site, as in ![a description](/media/…). From elsewhere, they become links to them.

![a cat](https://example.com/cat.png)

a cat

HTML shows as the text it is.

<b>not bold</b>

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A heading

A smaller one