3 Simple Ways to
Share What You Make

With Instructables you can share what you make with the world — and tap into an ever-growing community of creative experts.

PhotosPhotos

Share one or more photos of a project, recipe, or whatever you've made, quickly and easily.

Step by StepStep-By-Step

Share your step-by-step photos with text instructions of what you made so others can do it too!

VideoVideo

Share your how-to video. You'll need your embed code from a video site such as YouTube.

How to make a great Instructable

Step 8Text formatting

Text formatting
The text formatting in Instructables is based on the wiki used in Edgewall's trac.

The most useful thing for people is probably links.

Example:
[http://www.instructables.com/ Instructables]
Display:
Instructables



Three things that are not available as buttons yet are:
superscript
^superscript^

subscript
,,subscript,,

and the horizontal rule (four or more dashes)


The full formatting documentation is here. Not everything is implemented yet, but we're getting there.
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Jul 9, 2011. 3:42 PMcolorex says:
'''test'''
Jul 9, 2011. 3:41 PMcolorex says:
~~TEST~~
May 17, 2011. 5:08 PMKnEx FrEaK 1 says:
Hi
Jul 15, 2007. 12:49 PMnepheron says:
Hello World

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Eric J. Wilhelm is the founder of Instructables. He has a Ph.D. from MIT in Mechanical Engineering. Eric believes in making technology accessible through understanding, and strives to inspire others ...
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