# Is there any reference documentation for post formatting?

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**Created:** [23 أغسطس 2014، 12:01ص UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-any-reference-documentation-for-post-formatting/19197 "2014-08-23T00:01:20Z")\
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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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