A discussion on the “No-Parse” option for posts in Discourse revealed that users can prevent HTML processing by using various formatting methods. omarfilip suggested using back-ticks to enclose code, selecting text and applying the preformatted text button, or using triple backticks to create a code block. pfaffman added that using four spaces before a line of text also achieves this effect. However, codinghorror noted that fenced code blocks imply source code and enable colored syntax highlighting, making them distinct from the four-space method.
VBulletin has NOPARSE tags that stop it from processing any HTML positioned between the tags, within a post.
This allows people to post messages explaining how to do certain markup commands, without it actually resolving the commands in that post.
Is there any way to do this on Discourse?
Thanks @omarfilip. That is exactly what I needed.
Nice and easy to do, once you know how.
Thank you.
You can also do blocks with sections of triple backticks.
```
<code goes here>
```
You can also make a single line be code by preceding it with 4 spaces.
I recommend indenting by 4 spaces, unless you need syntax color highlighting (e.g. you are posting literal computer source code of some kind like Fortran or HTML).
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Is there a difference between four spaces and fenced code blocks I always thought they are equivalent!
Mostly but the fenced blocks imply source code and colored syntax highlighting.