Formatting posts using markdown, BBCode, and HTML

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@rahim123

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

You can make use of this guide:

Customize posts' contents with your own styles

Requirements To be able to use these tips and tricks, you need to be an administrator of either a self-hosted Discourse instance or a Discourse-hosted plan higher than Basic. Introduction Discourse supports several methods to format and customize a post’s contents. You can find the list here: But sometimes, you’ll want something more specific, for example, a link that looks like a button. [Green button] This is the kind of modification we’ll learn here. The logic I’l…

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Or use this plugin that extends BBcode support:

Discourse BBCode

Summary Discourse BBCode adds the ability to use BBCode to format posts. Hosted by us? This plugin is available on our Enterprise plans Self-host Install Install plugins on a self-hosted site Repository Link https://github.com/discourse/discourse-bbcode Features [image] The Discourse BBCode plugin pulls in much of the BBCode syntax into Discourse. Out-of-the-box: Discourse already supports [i], [b], [s], [u],…

As for the allowed HTML tags, I believe this is the reference:

discourse/discourse/blob/main/app/assets/javascripts/pretty-text/addon/allow-lister.js#L115

Though I don’t find table HTML tags (which are allowed) inside for some reason.

Maybe because they are referenced here:

https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/main/app/assets/javascripts/pretty-text/engines/discourse-markdown/table.js#L31