I've seen some posts with emojis. How do we enter these? Do we find them and copy/paste?
I add code blocks by adding three backticks above and below any code I add. This works well, but I've noticed that some code blocks have syntax colouring. How would I add that please?
Do you know if there's a list of languages somewhere that I can reference? e.g. if I wanted to check if it's c# or csharp, or something else I hadn't thought of.
My name is Samuel Braun, I am 23 and from Germany. I absolutely love learning and sharing knowledge about web development, especially in the frontend field which is why I made this account ✋
For emoji, I use a Mac app called Rocket. As a professional Social Media Manager, it makes the emoji part of my job a lot easier! If you're not on a Mac, I'm sure there are other options out there.
I also recommend Emojipedia for copy-paste needs. It's comprehensive and very informative as it relates to accessibility concerns.
This is super helpful. Thanks for the a11y resources for online content best practices. Please share any others that you reference often or that you think would be useful!
I've been a professional C, Perl, PHP and Python developer.
I'm an ex-sysadmin from the late 20th century.
These days I do more Javascript and CSS and whatnot, and promote UX and accessibility.
Thanks for sharing. How do I create a series on dev.to and display the series links in subposts on that same series. Just like you have done in this post
Any help with these would be greatly appreciated:
Thanks in advance.
If you want syntax highlighting, you'll have to specify the name of the language after three backticks at the top as seen below:
'''javascript
import './App.css';
import Todo from './components/Todo';
function App() {
return (
);
}
export default App;
'''
P.S
I made use of single quotes instead of the backticks so you can fully understand the context of my explanation.
Thanks Deji!
Do you know if there's a list of languages somewhere that I can reference? e.g. if I wanted to check if it's
c#
orcsharp
, or something else I hadn't thought of.Yes actually. You can check out the link to the Github repo below, which shows a list of languages for corresponding syntax highlighting.
github.com/jincheng9/markdown_supp...
Thanks again!
Sure, you're welcome.
If you are on Windows you can press
Windows+.
(winkey+point) for emojis 😋Thanks Samuel! Looks like there are lots of useful symbols there too👍
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For emoji, I use a Mac app called Rocket. As a professional Social Media Manager, it makes the emoji part of my job a lot easier! If you're not on a Mac, I'm sure there are other options out there.
I also recommend Emojipedia for copy-paste needs. It's comprehensive and very informative as it relates to accessibility concerns.
Thanks Erin!
I'm on Windows, but Emojipedia certainly looks really useful - being able to search seems like a huge timesaver.
This is super helpful. Thanks for the a11y resources for online content best practices. Please share any others that you reference often or that you think would be useful!
I think the other big one is not to use screenshots of code. You know, things like snippets made with Carbon.
YAY! Love to see this
I like to use ChatGPT to proofread my posts which often helps with formatting!
Don't forget to follow our Guidelines for AI-assisted Articles 😉
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Erin Bensinger for The DEV Team ・ Dec 19 '22 ・ 4 min read
Hey @sloan, I'm not a native-English speaker but shouldn't that be heading rather than header?
OMG. You're totally right — I am a native English speaker, but clearly it's hard for us too 😆 I'll edit this. Thanks for the note.
Thanks for sharing. How do I create a series on dev.to and display the series links in subposts on that same series. Just like you have done in this post
Hey Chiamaka! You can learn how to do that from this recent post:
Best Practices for Writing on DEV: Creating a Series
Sloan the DEV Moderator for The DEV Team ・ Apr 17 ・ 2 min read