Help: code

chandrakanth · September 23, 2014, 5:00am

Why am i getting notifications to use codes? What are they ? How to choose a Code? What is their purpose?

Regards,
Chandu

sea · September 23, 2014, 5:13am

You see. when you do post a post.. regardless if its a quick reply (the text box at bottom) or a 'post reply',
there is a little toolbar above the textbox, on there is a white icon labeld "code" this makes look the text within it like this:

example code

That helps enourmous to read code, specialy when there are many lines with (hopefully) indented code.

Hope this helps

Don_Cragun · September 23, 2014, 5:29am

Did you read the messages you received? Both messages explained why you got the notifications and gave you a link to a tutorial that describes when and how to use CODE tags.

The messages you received were something like:

To keep the forums high quality for all users, please take the time to format your posts correctly.

First of all, use Code Tags when you post any code or data samples so others can easily read your code. You can easily do this by highlighting your code and then clicking on the # in the editing menu. (You can also type code tags
```text
 and 
```
by hand.)

https://youtu.be/6SHhxh--JT4

Second, avoid adding color or different fonts and font size to your posts. Selective use of color to highlight a single word or phrase can be useful at times, but using color, in general, makes the forums harder to read, especially bright colors like red.

Third, be careful when you cut-and-paste, edit any odd characters and make sure all links are working property.

Thank You.

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