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When creating/editing a custom field I don’t have the ‘Display formatting menu’ option.
And when I go ahead and create a new textarea, then attempt to use it in the publish form the textarea has text formatting buttons top right but, doesn’t have spelling, smileys, etc bottom right.
ExpressionEngine implements Markdown Extra and BBCode. Please see the Markdown Extra docs and the BBCode Wikipedia article for a full reference.
**bold**, __bold__, *italics*, _italics_, ~strike/del~, `code()`
bold, italics, strike/del, code()
Link: [link title](https://example.com)
Image: 
[blockquote]...[/blockquote], [quote]...[/quote], and Markdown style:
> Some quoted text. > > This is all one quote.
[code]...[/code], and you can also specify the language for syntax highlighting, [code=php]...[/code]
GitHub flavored Markdown code fences are also supported:
```
public function decoderRing($str)
{
return str_rot13($str);
}
```