# Moderator red text **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [July 17, 2020, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moderator-red-text/915595 "2020-07-17T16:47:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2020, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moderator-red-text/915595/21 "2020-07-19T17:49:38Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > The big brother of backtick is the triple backtick on a line by itself. When you put those on separate lines as bookends, that treats all lines between them as a block quote of programming code with all the embedded spacing preserved, certain terms automatically highlighted, colored, etc, etc. Ah. I was wondering how to do that. The versions of Markdown I’m most familiar with uses four spaces before each line, but that wasn’t working. I do believe the advantage of the backtick method is that you can declare [what language you want to use](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-do-i-select-a-language-in-code-blocks/19247). I hope there’s also a “none” option to force it not to try and autodetect. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2020, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moderator-red-text/915595/22 "2020-07-19T19:17:02Z")
I have to say that between the random subset of BBCode, the random subset of HTML tags, and the undocumented homebrew version of Markdown (among all 40 versions extant in the wild) that Discourse recognizes, it’s a real dog’s breakfast. A couple of quickie experiments imply that Discourse’s Markdown’s triple-backtick doesn’t accept a language tag. If you know otherwise for sure do tell. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moderator-red-text/915595.md?page=1)