Comment on Why 🤷♂️ do users 👨💻 dislike 👎 the use ✅ of emojis 😀 on Lemmy 🐭?
xmunk@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks agoIt is eventually encoded into the DOM possibly via HTML or possibly through direct node creation but it’s more accurate to say it’s markdown.
LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Markdown, never heard the term, the m in html is markup I thought, it’s been years since I did any web design. 2006 I think is when I studied it, so I used notepad, and Dreamweaver was still owned by macro media haha
xmunk@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Markdown and HTML are indeed both markup languages, markdown is one that was designed to align with a lot of internet text habits that emerged organically like using *s to create lists and ascii tables.
A reference is available here daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax.text
LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Oh cool thanks. I saw Div tags listed in there, does it natively support such or does that still fall into the css or JavaScript type of chunk.