# Hard to find the Markdown help button

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/hard-to-find-the-markdown-help-button/258180>\
**Category:** UX\
**Created:** [March 15, 2023, 5:59am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/hard-to-find-the-markdown-help-button/258180 "2023-03-15T05:59:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![David\_Forrest](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/david_forrest/32/304247_2.png) [@David\_Forrest](https://meta.discourse.org/u/David_Forrest)\
**Post date:** [April 26, 2023, 4:01pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/hard-to-find-the-markdown-help-button/258180/12 "2023-04-26T16:01:08Z")

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> [@Jagster](#):
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> And there is no help-button, because everyone shall read docs and memorizes how to do tables for example.

This is a strawman. Maybe there’s a few hard-core helpful dev sorts that have the formatting rules memorized and need no documentation, but not all of the non-beginners have all of the formatting rules memorized.

> [@Jagster](#):
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> It is totally unrelevant component that is rarely used and everyone knows out there is is docs and manuals.

With the different flavors of markdown, BBCode and html supported by different instantiations of Discourse, there is not a manual out there in the docs.

If someone does built a manual for the particular set of valid markup codes on a site, and wants to put a github-style help link on the composer page, as below, how would one accomplish it?

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/7/1/b/71b92420939054dc73cf8d28c2ce3fc643c7ea53.png)

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