Reddit is a super popular internet website / forum where users can post various topics within communities.
Overview
Reddit has its own Markdown processor called snoomark. The company developed this processor based on GFM (GitHub-flavored Markdown).
The Reddit Markdown processor is known as Reddit-flavored Markdown.
How to enable Markdown support in the Reddit editor
Support for Markdown in Reddit for inserting new posts is disabled by default.
To enable support for Markdown in Reddit click on the Switch to Markdown option at the upper right corner of the editor.
See the image below:
With this same option you can switch back to the Rich Text editor and vice versa.
To make the Markdown editor the default one on Reddit, check the Default to Markdown option located at: User Settings > Feed Settings.
From now on, all posts, including comments, can be made using Markdown formatting syntax.
Visit the Reddit website at https://www.reddit.com/.
Reddit Markdown Support
Table 1.1 presents the elements compatible with Reddit and some observations on how to use them.
| Element | Support | Information |
|---|---|---|
| Titles | Yes | |
| Paragraphs | Yes | |
| Line breaks | Yes | |
| Bold | Yes | |
| Italic | Yes | |
| Blockquote | Yes | |
| Ordered lists | Yes | To build ordered lists in the Reddit editor start with the number 1. You can use parentheses to enclose an element of the list instead of the period, that is, 1) rather than 1.. |
| Unordered lists | Partial | The Reddit Markdown editor does not support the use of the plus sign + to create elements in unordered lists. |
| Code | Yes | |
| Horizontal lines | Yes | |
| Links | Yes | The Reddit Markdown editor allows links containing blank spaces in the URL. |
| Images | No | Unfortunately it does not support the Markdown format. To insert an image using the Reddit editor, it is necessary to switch to Rich Text mode. |
| Tables | Yes | |
| Fenced code blocks | Yes | Highlighting the source code in the Markdown code block is not supported by the Reddit editor. |
| Footnotes | No | |
| Title Id | Partial | The Reddit Markdown editor generates the title ids automatically, it is not possible for the user to specify a custom id. |
| Definition lists | No | |
| Strikethrough | Yes | |
| Task lists | No | |
| Emoji (copy and paste) | Unknown | |
| Emoji (access codes) | Unknown | |
| Automatic URL link | Yes | |
| Disable automatic link from URL | Yes | |
| HTML | No |
Additional Markdown elements supported by the Reddit editor
Table 1.2 shows which additional Markdown elements are compatible with the Reddit editor.
| Element | Markdown | Output |
|---|---|---|
| Spoilers | This text will be hidden: >!spoilers!< |
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| Superscript | ^reddit or ^(reddited). |
reddit or reddited |