Looks like they always show at the bottom of the Publish tab, no matter where I place them when creating the layout.
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);
}
```