• ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.world
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      8 months ago

      Lemmy uses Markdown to insert HTML into comments. Here’s a very complete guide, and you can search for more if you want. You can also view the source on a comment whose formatting you want to emulate to see how they did it. It’s the little paper icon, if you have it available in your client of choice.

      To answer your question directly, a quote is where you start a paragraph with a > followed by a space and then the text you wish to quote: that puts the green line to the left of that paragraph alone.

      If you want an unbroken line across multiple paragraphs, put the > and following space in the empty lines between as well.