This is an updated version and better guide of @ShadowDraft 's old stickied thread

Here I will be using the zero-width space as an escape character to stop the text from formatting and also this ⁕ character as an alterative to the asterisk

The site uses both Markdown and BBCode but has more recently started to use react-markdown in updated parts of the site. This guide focuses on SRC's current formatting

If you have any feedback or questions: respond to this thread and I will answer you or make an edit to this guide

Bold, italics, and underlined ⁕⁕Bold⁕⁕: two asterisks ⁕ ⁕Italics⁕: one asterisk ⁕ Strikethrough~~: two tildes ~ ​_Underlined_: two underscores _

[Text here](url here) [Text here]​(url here)

Some special characters don't work when linked, e.g. colons, so link the text around it instead For URLs to this site: they don't need to be prefixed with https://www.speedrun.com , since all URLs that start with a slash / link to the current domain

The URL's scheme can be something other than http(s) e.g. mailto or tel Anchors on their own work, but open in a new tab Most text that is prefixed with www or http(s):// will become a link, e.g. www-i-am-a-link

[big]big[/big] and [small]small[/small] [​big]Text here[​/big] [​small]Text here[​/small]

​# Heading 1 ​## Heading 2

Or use this BBCode tag for heading 1 [​section=Name]

A table of contents is automatically added just before the first header

• Like this
• Like this
• Like this

⁕ Like this - use an asterisk with a space afterwards

[centre]Centred text![/centre] [​centre]Centred text![​/centre] "centre" and "center" are both valid BBCode tags and can be used interchangeably

@YUMmy_Bacon5 @ then a username Capitalisation matters, and some usernames don't work, e.g. @killerkun..., so just link them instead

Certain punctuation before and after the username stops it from formatting, so just put a space between it and the punctuation. e.g. (@YUMmy_Bacon5) to ( @YUMmy_Bacon5 )

This does not notify the user

[quote=YUMmy_Bacon5]This is a quote[/quote] [​quote=YUMmy_Bacon5]This is a quote[​/quote] The equals is optional

If you don't put a value for the equals, then you won't be able to edit your forum post

[​flag​:countrycode]

All flags that are on this site are supported - more than the above To view a flag's countrycode: Open the flag's image, view the URL after /flags/ and that is what should be put

Flags without a valid countrycode do not appear at all

Speedrun1st: S​peedrun1st HYPERS: H​YPERS More emotes are supported than the above

Here is the list of all supported emotes @Meta has said that Elo still own the Twitch account from @Pac!

:) ​:) :/ ​:/ :( ​:(

Some emojis🥓 and emoticons format into images to look like Discord emojis

YouTube, Twitch, BiliBili, Niconico and images ending in a common file extension are all supported

For one of these to embed, just paste the link on its own To embed an image: upload it onto a file hosting service, e.g. Imgur or in a Discord channel, then copy the image's URL and paste it

YouTube and Twitch both support their video starting at a certain time e.g. "Copy video URL at current time" on YT Run and news comments don't support embeds

In most text inputs

• SRC formatting: Forum posts, messages, news posts, run and news comments, run descriptions, and guides
• react-markdown: Game Leaderboards' run notes and rules, and messages beta

• Text with an unclosed BBCode tag or nothing after the equals makes you be unable to edit your forum post
• Too may "quote"s or "big" tags makes the text larger than it's intended area e.g. This and this
• 497 unclosed "centre" BBCode tags in a forum post makes the edit box appear for all logged in users - even when it isn't their post e.g. This

• Text does not need to be on a new line after the end of BBCode tags
• Game news, although only accessible when you're a mod, has a preview button so you can get an idea of your formatted text
• Run and news comments do not support media embeds, formatted emojis and emotes

Consider using a zero width space to break formatting instead: ​_hello_​

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-width_space

[quote=Johnny Test]Very[/quote]

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@Sizzyl noo don't ruin the post on the first page

He’s just testing YOUR guidelines

@Act_ what's that meant to mean??

We over at DOOM Eternal used sub bullets in our rules, just by adding a space before a dash or *. That doesn't work anymore it seems. There anyway to do that now? It was really useful.

@DrakePHOSE they don't work with normal formatting. You put 2 spaces in front of the asterisk e.g. (The ses are spaces) ⁕ 1 ss⁕ 2 ssss⁕ 3 ss⁕ 2

We figured out how to get the indented empty sub bullet point like before. Just add 2 spaces (rather than the 1 required previously) before the dash (-) or asterisks (*).

thank you for the update, but, it is a new one or not?

@anawilliam850, what do you mean?

thanks for the update

How can I introduce line breaks? Trying to add one (or several) empty lines after a bullet item does not seem to work.

To clarify, I'm trying to replicate the formatting of the category rules for Neon White on a different game.

@gw4yn can you send the link to the category's rules of where there are line breaks?

But try putting two spaces at the end of the bullet point's line

What about nested bullet points in forum posts? This is useful for displaying categorical data about game mechanics (in my case, classifying ingredients in Tears of the Kingdom). None of the BBCode syntaxes for this seem to work. Would be nice to get forum posts on Markdown but that's probably difficult if it would break existing posts.

Was there any solution to how to add Line Breaks in a rule post?

Add two spaces at the end of the previous line (yes, seriously, I hate pure markdown and will never understand why anyone would want it).