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#1 Post by Slix » Thu Dec 18, 2025 9:11 pm

Hey everyone! I've added an extension to the forums that allows using Markdown for posts. What is Markdown? Well...

"Markdown is a lightweight markup language with plain text formatting syntax aimed for web writers. It allows you to easily write text, without the need or help of external tools or a user interface, that later will be formatted as HTML while maintaining readability. Markdown can be used instead of or in conjunction of text formatted with BBCode."

But what does that all mean? It means you can do things like making your text bold, crossed out, italicized and more, using simple formatting! If you've ever used these on a site like Discord, it's very much the same!

In the post editor on Poliwager Forums, you can click the "Markdown is ON" link to the left of the text box to see more explanations on how to use Markdown to edit posts. Here are some quick examples to get you started.

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**Bold**

*Italics*

***Both italics and bold***

~~oops! mistake!~~

- option one
- option two
- option three

Header 1 | header 2
- | -
Cell 1 | Cell 2

horizontal rule line:
***

Bold

Italics

Both italics and bold

oops! mistake!

  • option one
  • option two
  • option three
Header 1header 2
Cell 1Cell 2

horizontal rule line:


Happy posting! :D


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