I see people use it but I do not see it listed in the markdown help nor in the toolbar.
Looks like this:
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FWIW there's a feature request asking for the keyboard button highlighter to be available on the toolbar meta.superuser.com/questions/1454/…– Sathyajith Bhat ModCommented Oct 27, 2010 at 2:45
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...also there's a good trick to use when you want to "steal" a syntax: Just use edit button to see the Markdown code but don't make any changes :)– Alois MahdalCommented Jan 23, 2012 at 4:23
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That is probably the <kbd> HTML tag:
code:
<kbd>Compose</kbd>result:
Compose
The outline part of the formatting is disabled on MSO (and MSU, is seems) due to people abusing it to draw pictures and such.
answered Oct 27, 2010 at 1:59
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Ahhh ok. That explains your results not matching what I've seen in the past. Is it somewhere in the documentation? Perhaps I missed it. Or is this just community knowledge? Commented Oct 27, 2010 at 2:01
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Under “Inline HTML”, the “markdown help” page says “Note that we only support a very strict subset of HTML!”. The last bit is a link to the MSO page that says which tags are supported, but it does not hint at the special styling applied to
<kbd>. Commented Oct 27, 2010 at 2:08 -
Thank you very much Mr. Johnsen! Appreciate the clarification. Commented Oct 27, 2010 at 11:33