Markdown Syntax

You can use Markdown syntax in your posts. The implementation used on this site is kramdown with some tweaks, and the Markdown dialect is very close to the one used on SteamGifts.

To get you started, here’s a short summary of the most important features.

Font Styles

Text can be bold, italic or both. You can also use underscores to achieve the same.

Text can be **bold**, *italic* or ***both***. You can also use _underscores_ to achieve the __same__.

Two additions to the original Markdown language that you probably know from SteamGifts are strikethrough and spoiler.

Two additions to the original Markdown language that you probably know from SteamGifts are ~~strikethrough~~ and ~spoiler~.

You can use the same syntax for links and images you know from SteamGifts.

You can use the same syntax for [links](/) and ![images](http://i.imgur.com/CqqiIZX.png) you know from SteamGifts.

But around here, images are embedded where you reference them and are not hidden, so you may want to use spoiler tags like this:
spoiler!

But around here, images are embedded where you reference them and are not hidden, so you may want to use spoiler tags like this:
\~![spoiler!](http://i.imgur.com/uULnPWv.jpg)\~

Oh, and automatic links work a little differently; http://steamgifts.com is not automatically linked, but http://steamgifts.com is.

Oh, and automatic links work a little differently; http://steamgifts.com is not automatically linked, but <http://steamgifts.com> is.

Tables

Tables work just the way they do on SteamGifts.

Left Aligned Column Centered Column Right Aligned Column
a b c
Left Aligned Column | Centered Column | Right Aligned Column
:------------------ | :-------------: | -------------------:
a                   |        b        |                    c

You can be lazy when aligning table cells. It’s less typing, but not as readable.

this looks weird
a b c
this | looks | weird
-: | :-: | -
a | b | c