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How are you all posting in blue text?
Sorry for seeming like a total idiot but I cannot find the process to change my text color when I type a message.
I checked this site and did some online research with the Markdown system itself which is new to me.
It appears that there is some kind of code insertion but it's unclear how to format.
So many of you are advanced computer users and I am just your traditional semi-fluent poster.
Any help would be appreciated.
Do you mean like this?
That blue text in that sentence is a hyperlink. Behind the scenes, I typed the following:
You can click on that blue text / hyperlink and it will take you to a page on the internet.
You can do the same. There's a 'Formatting help' link at the top-right corner of the text box, which can help you. There's also a page (that's another hyperlink) in the Tildes Docs which explains how to make hyperlinks (among other things).
Thank you for pointing that out. I understand now!
Also if you're ever curious about how someone formatted their specific message (you'll see some creative uses), you can click on "More..." under a comment and then "View Markdown".
You're welcome!
That's handled by your operating system, I believe. At least, it never used to happen to me until I was forced to upgrade to Windows 10, and then every URL I copy-pasted became a hyperlink by default. I'm not sure I like the change (I know I went in and switched off that option in my operating system).
I think the mechanism you are talking about applies only to applications that deal directly in hypertext, like word processors, not to plain text boxes. Here is a url that I typed by hand, and you can see that tildes will linkify it: https://tildes.net.
I'm talking about hyperlinks like this, not bald URLs. Windows has a feature where, if you copy a URL, it will automatically paste it as a hyperlink with text overlaid on the hidden URL.
I see. Again, I think that cannot work in plain text boxes, because neither windows nor the browser has no way of knowing that the text will be interpreted as markup (nor what markup language it would be interpreted as, if it were so interpreted).
If you use the Tildes ReExtended extension for Firefox or Chrome, it adds a link formatter to the edit box. Just highlight the text you want, click "Link" and paste in the URL!
Suggest you reconsider using Brave as the company running it has multiple ethical issues
Firefox is nice.
Blue text is for links, you can't change the colour of text arbitrarily here
I didn't see anyone mention it, but you can see a comment's original text by clicking the More drop down on the comment and selecting "View Markdown"
That can help you learn formatting by seeing it in action.
Once you start to learn Markdown, you’ll see pieces of it everywhere. A ton of modern enterprise tools support it: Jira, Teams, Slack, Confluence, GitHub. And stuff like Discord, Reddit, most note-taking apps. A lot of times they’ll auto-translate your Markdown to rich text on the fly. It’s sorta becoming the defacto standard for simple text entry.
I just wish tables were easier.
I am always up for learning new information. This is the first I have heard about Markdown.
Sometimes I get ahead of myself and just scroll to the bottom and reply to the topic instead of the comment itself.
It's a brain/hand/typing misfire.
I'm under a bit of stress at the moment and just trying to get by.
Again: you've replied to your own post here, rather than to the comment of the person you want to communicate with.
Ok thank you so much!
You've replied to your own post here, instead of to Macha's comment. That means they won't see your reply.