# Is there any reference documentation for post formatting?
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-any-reference-documentation-for-post-formatting/19197
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [August 23, 2014, 12:01am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-any-reference-documentation-for-post-formatting/19197 "2014-08-23T00:01:20Z")
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### Author:  [@dfabulich](https://meta.discourse.org/u/dfabulich)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2014, 12:01am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-any-reference-documentation-for-post-formatting/19197/1 "2014-08-23T00:01:20Z")
Is there any documentation on the official reference format Discourse uses for formatting posts?
> Use Markdown or BBCode to format.
I know there’s no official Markdown spec, and the BBCode.org reference documentation leaves much to be desired.
Is there, at least, a list of BBCode tags Discourse supports? (For example, [BBCode.org](http://BBCode.org) doesn’t document the very useful [spoiler] tag.)
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### Author:  [@mcwumbly](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mcwumbly)
#### Post date: [September 18, 2022, 6:49pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-any-reference-documentation-for-post-formatting/19197/2 "2022-09-18T18:49:43Z")
A post was split to a new topic: [Supported formatting in posts (markdown, BBCode, and HTML)](https://meta.discourse.org/t/supported-formatting-in-posts-markdown-bbcode-and-html/239348)
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### Author:  [@JammyDodger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JammyDodger)
#### Post date: [September 28, 2022, 10:22am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-any-reference-documentation-for-post-formatting/19197/7 "2022-09-28T10:22:55Z")