Using formatting tags in "add comments"

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Hi guys,

I am always frustrated when I want to add code into the "Add comment" link under questions and answers. It seems that the <pre> tag is not working. <code> seems OK though.

I searched on CodeProject an article explaining how formatting works for comments, but I couldn't find.

If somebody could give a link or explain it, then I would feel relieved!

Cheers.

Posted 24-Feb-11 3:25am

Olivier Levrey

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#realJSOP 24-Feb-11 9:40am

Bold text.
Italic text.
Big text.
Code text.
<pre>Code snippet</pre> text.

Olivier Levrey 24-Feb-11 10:11am

Yes: everything works but pre tag ;)
I added a suggestion in the forum Nishant gave in his answer.

Sandeep Mewara 24-Feb-11 9:51am

Better to update question/answer with code directly (instead of posting as a comment). If needed, drop a comment as a reply that you updated question/answer with code.

Nish Nishant 24-Feb-11 10:00am

Sometimes that's messy though. Because usually there's a conversation between OP and someone trying to help. When both the OP and the guy trying to help keep updating their answers, you quickly lose context. This is a design flaw in the QA threading/comenting system though.

Sandeep Mewara 24-Feb-11 10:02am

Hmmmm...

Luc Pattyn 24-Feb-11 10:12am

I would vote that up if I knew how to do so...
And I am in favor of PRE-tag support everywhere.

:)

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I didn't think you could use formatting tags in comments. Looks like the <pre> tag doesn't work.

Posted 24-Feb-11 3:39am

#realJSOP

Updated 24-Feb-11 3:41am

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Olivier Levrey 24-Feb-11 9:54am

Well once I wanted to check back one of my comments and I was surprised to see that somebody formatted it!... But now it returned to its previous state. I am wondering if I didn't dream it :(

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Nish Nishant · Accepted Answer · 2011-02-24T03:41:00

Such discussions should really be in this forum:

http://www.codeproject.com/Forums/1645/Site-Bugs-Suggestions.aspx[^]

I reckon the idea is that comments should not be used for big code snippets. But sometimes there's no other way. The comment system in the QA forum is a very poor forum implementation. It would be better to have the full forum (that's available for articles and message boards) attached to a QA thread. That way, any meta discussions take place in the forum, while only valid answers are posted in the non-forum QA portion of the thread.

Comments can also exist but merely for very simple queries to and fro, so comments should probably be limited to 20 words or so (256 characters).