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Chris Gauthier
Courses Plus Student 6,434 PointsPosting code in questions
Hello, i remember when i first started here at team treehouse there was a tutorial on how to put code, properly formatted, into questions and comments.
Can somebody please redirect me to that resource one more time, I can't find it now.
class Post:
subject = "code blocks"
String firstName = console.readLine("Enter your first name:");
<h1>WELCOME!</h1>
<p>This is just nonsense</p>
[MOD: added code blocks for demonstration purposes - srh]
2 Answers
Ryan S
27,276 PointsHi Chris,
Are you referring to the Markdown Cheatsheet? It is linked at the bottom of questions, answers, and comments and provides some basic guidelines for using Markdown styling, including code formatting.
For code formatting, you need to surround your code with 3 back ticks. Note that these are not apostrophes, but the back tick found in the upper left corner of your keyboard. If you add the name of the programming language immediately after the opening back ticks, it will add some syntax highlighting that is typical of that language.
For example:
```python
print("Treehouse")
```
Will produce the following:
print("Treehouse")
There is also an "eye" icon in the bottom right corner of the text box that you can click to preview your post before submitting.
Steve Hunter
57,712 PointsHi Chris,
I edited your original post with three code block examples. If you edit it yourself, you'll see exactly how code blocks are produced. Ryan is correct, but I thought a demonstration might help too.
All the best!
Steve.
Chris Gauthier
Courses Plus Student 6,434 Pointsyep, great now im up and running, thanks :)
Steve Hunter
57,712 PointsNo problem! Always happy to help. 
