Okay, so first off, I don’t own an iPad, nor do I have one readily available for testing, hence my silly question. How does one create code blocks from an iPad? I’ve been told be a user attempting to do such, that there are no backticks on the iPad virtual keyboard, and entering 4 spaces before each line of code gets truncated, so there are no longer 4 spaces… What options does this person have?

You can tap and hold the ’ button to get a ` Not convenient for typing 4 of them, but it should work!

Actually the problem I have is with an iPad Mini 2, I don’t know if the problem exists on all iPads and iPad Minis.

@Tom_Newsom Try again <?php echo 'I hope this works'; echo 'I hope this works'; Yippeeee, what a carry on. When the ’ is tapped and held, three options appear and one of the options is a backtick. Many thanks.

[image] cpradio: I don’t own an iPad, nor do I have one readily available for testing You do now, though! Tap and hold. :wink:

Ha, I completely forgot about this topic, and yes, you are indeed correct, I do now. :slightly_smiling: (and am enjoying it)

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codinghorror (Jeff Atwood) January 1, 2016, 11:07pm 5

You do now, though! Tap and hold.

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