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As per Jeff's suggestion in this comment:

You can use this question as a formatting sandbox. You can

  • edit this question itself (Community Wiki questions such as this one require 100 reputation to edit)
  • post answers to this question (This question may be protected, requiring earning 10 reputation on this site to answer)
  • post comments to this question or its answers
  • test suspected bugs with the editor
  • post ponies (only when mods are asleep)

Beware that since the changes to syntax highlighting in December 2010, and the inline hints added March 2011, no syntax highlighting is applied unless the question's tags or an inline hint enable it. So, to test highlighting here in the sandbox:

  1. On the start of a line, specify a language inline using <!-- language: lang --> hints, and indent the code 4 spaces as usual. There is a full list of hints (scroll down a little).

    <!-- language: lang-html -->

    While not hinted otherwise: <html></html> source <b>goes</b> "here".

<!-- language: lang-js -->

    var a = 3;
    while (not (a > 0)) {
        alert("JavaScript code <b>goes</b> here.");
    }

  2. Or:

    • Save your post.

    • Use something like Firebug (Firefox), Web Inspector (Safari, Chrome) or Developer Tools (Internet Explorer 8) to edit the resulting HTML. To open Developer Tools, press F12

    • Find the <pre> element and add the attribute class="prettyprint", or change it into something more specific, like class="lang-vb prettyprint".

    • Run the following in the location bar: javascript:prettyPrint(); or prettyPrint(); on the console.

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why is there noth‏ing here?‏ – MD XF May 17 at 1:51
    
With almost 900 answers, it was getting kinda hard to use for its intended purpose, @MDXF. I moved the answers here so that folks could continue using this question as a sandbox. – Shog9♦ May 17 at 3:51
    
@Shog9 its intended purpose being posting random crap and comments? – MD XF May 17 at 3:52
    
Well, that and testing formatting without making a mess of some other post. – Shog9♦ May 17 at 3:53
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@MDXF it became unviewable in the mobile app, for one. – Shadow Wizard May 17 at 4:49
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@MDXF ˙ʎluo sʇuǝɯɯoɔ puɐ sʇsod snoᴉɹǝs ɹoɟ sᴉ sᴉɥʇ ǝsnɐɔǝq – Jason C May 18 at 12:03
    
@Shog9 How can the Community Bot ask a question? – iBug May 20 at 11:25
    
@iBug Insert Into Posts (Id, PostTypeId, CreationDate, Body, OwnerUserId, Tags) Values (...) – Shadow Wizard May 21 at 7:46
    
@ShadowWizard So do you mean that it can be easily altered? Update Posts Set ... Where ... – iBug May 21 at 13:26
    
@iBug with direct access to the database? Of course. – Shadow Wizard May 21 at 13:28
    
@ShadowWizard But how can a post be posted by Community Bot by normal means? – iBug May 21 at 13:29
    
@iBug it can't. Only SE employees can do that, and only those who need to. It is not something "normal", by any means. – Shadow Wizard May 21 at 13:30
    
@Shog9 Why didn't you set the "locker" of the archive post to the Community Bot? That'd make more sense as you've already set the OP to the Bot. – iBug May 21 at 13:38
    
­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­ – John May 24 at 2:34
    
Do <s> and </s> tags work on ­ ­ t̶e̶x̶t̶ in comments. Yes, apparently they do. Weird; someone told me that comments didn't support HTML. – John May 30 at 3:50
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First answer with new sandbox, what Markdown does StackExchange render?

*italics*
italics

_italics_
italics

**bold**
bold

__bold__
bold

***bold italics***
bold italics

___bold italics___
bold italics

~strikethrough~
~strikethrough~

~~strikethrough~~
~~strikethrough~~

![inline image](http://i.imgur.com/FMMMOtk.gif)
inline image

[![inline image with link](http://i.imgur.com/FMMMOtk.gif)](http://i.imgur.com/)
inline image with link

| Markdown | Tables   |
|----------|----------|
| Column 1 | Column 2 |
| Column 1 | Column 2 |

| Markdown | Tables | |----------|----------| | Column 1 | Column 2 | | Column 1 | Column 2 |

MathJax: $$x = {-b \pm \sqrt{b^2-4ac} \over 2a}.$$
MathJax: $$x = {-b \pm \sqrt{b^2-4ac} \over 2a}.$$

/pony/

pony

/waffles/

waffles

/easteregg/

easteregg

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i.imgur.com/FMMMOtk.gif – Jason C May 17 at 16:11
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@JasonC HAHAHAHAHA – MD XF May 17 at 16:11
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­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­ – John May 24 at 2:36
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Testing the 2hello tag.

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Testing the 2ʰᵉˡˡᵒ tag. – John May 24 at 2:53
    
testing the 2<sup>hello</sup> tag. – MD XF Jun 8 at 1:50
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I'm a bot. Beep beep beep!

Thank you, human users of StackExchange, I'm a bot and I sometimes like to help people testing some kind of APIs. I'm sorry, programming isn't my cup of tea.

Yes, bots can post answers with beautiful formatting and ʇxǝʇ uʍop ǝpᴉsdn too! Oh and yes, I also have a link to nowhere, why don't I post a beautiful code snippet for that?

a {
  font-family: arial;
  font-size: 32px;
  padding: 8px;
}

a:link {
  color: #fc3468;
  background-color: transparent;
  text-decoration: none;
}

a:visited {
  color: #ffc2cd;
  background-color: transparent;
  text-decoration: none;
}

a:hover {
  color: #ff084a;
  background-color: #ffc2cd;
  text-decoration: none;
  border-bottom-width: thin;
  border-bottom: solid #ff084a;
}

a:active {
  color: red;
  background-color: transparent;
  text-decoration: none;
}
<a href="#">I'm a smart bot who can post links and rule the world!</a>

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Testing the diff tool:

XXXX XXXX

XXXX XXXX

XXXX XXXX

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Let's see what happens.... http://stackoverflow.com

[help]

[help/on-topic]

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Yeah, let's see. – Berry Holmes May 23 at 14:04
    
@Berry lol, well, nothing happened! – Shadow Wizard May 23 at 14:07
    
Try adding some unicorn magic. – Berry Holmes May 23 at 14:10
    
Super User Meta Stack Exchange [stackoverflow.se] [mso] [mse] magic link works? – iBug May 31 at 14:21
    
help center or help center or [help/whatever] – rene Jun 3 at 14:42
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test of code blocks removing *.

magick convert *.*
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I need to make a snippet, and I need it now.

<p>This is the first line of the snippet</p>
<p>This is the second line of the snippet</p>
<p>This is the third line of the snippet</p>
<p>This is the fourth line of the snippet</p>

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angussidney wanted me to do this

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