# Formatting posts using markdown, BBCode, and HTML

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/formatting-posts-using-markdown-bbcode-and-html/239348
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**Created:** [August 25, 2014, 5:47am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/formatting-posts-using-markdown-bbcode-and-html/239348 "2014-08-25T05:47:06Z")
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### Author: ![rahim123](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/df705f/32.png) [@rahim123](https://meta.discourse.org/u/rahim123)
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> [@codinghorror](#):
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> However, we only support a “safe” subset of HTML. I’ll have to dig to find the specifics, but anything common you’d expect to work that isn’t crazy – like `<script>` – should work.

Text color and text background color doesn’t seem to work with `<span>` or bbcode, am I missing something?

- `<span style="color:red">some red markdown text</span>`
  - some red markdown text

- bbcode: `[color=red]Red color text[/color]`
  - [color=red]Red color text[/color]

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