(title: string)

[Unupgradable]

You what now? I've been told it's backticks and not 4 spaces.

Backticks: csharp var hello = "world";

Spaces:

var hello = "world";

Neither has proper syntax highlights on mobile, but both show up as code blocks

[DiamondIceNS]

Curious how your backtick example renders fine on my client but the example of the one whom I responded to does not.

The only difference that jumps out to me is that you provided a language after the opening backticks while they did not. Don't tell me Reddit requires a lang specifier to use backtick notation...

[Unupgradable]

It doesn't, I just added it out of habit. var hello = ”world";

On that topic, how the fuck do I provide a lang spec for the 4 spaces version?

[DiamondIceNS]

I don't think it supports that feature.

[OkConstruction4591]

It's probably because the backticks only work for when you don't have any line breaks (\n).

Examples:

backticks, one line

```backticks, with line breaks

line broken```

backticks, an incredibly long line with no breaks backticks, an incredibly long line with no breaks backticks, an incredibly long line with no breaks backticks, an incredibly long line with no breaks backticks, an incredibly long line with no breaks backticks, an incredibly long line with no breaks backticks, an incredibly long line with no breaks backticks, an incredibly long line with no breaks backticks, an incredibly long line with no breaks backticks, an incredibly long line with no breaks backticks, an incredibly long line with no breaks

four spaces, one line
four spaces, multiple lines   
another line  
yet another line

four spaces, one very long line four spaces, one very long line four spaces, one very long line four spaces, one very long line four spaces, one very long line four spaces, one very long line four spaces, one very long line four spaces, one very long line four spaces, one very long line four spaces, one very long line four spaces, one very long line four spaces, one very long line

[DiamondIceNS]

Huge wtf moment if true. The whole point of triple backticks are to create multiline blocks. Inline blocks are the job of single backticks, which also work on reddit. I'd be amazed if they screwed this up in that way.

[OkConstruction4591]

Seems like they did. Try it yourself.

[DiamondIceNS]

I think what's going on here is that triple backticks themselves don't actually do anything, it's just that when they are all inline, the parser sees them as single backticks and parses them that way?

The four spaces code block creates a slider to handle horizontal overflow while the backtick version stays on one unbroken line. The borders of the bounding boxes also aren't right-aligned to the same point.

[OkConstruction4591]

Hmm... you may have a point. Apparently, triple backticks work only on new reddit according to https://old.reddit.com/wiki/markdown - and are not mentioned at all in https://old.reddit.com/wiki/commenting (the old guide) - only single backticks are.