How do I format my code that it will be wrapped in a box with horizontal scrolling?

Question

Usually when I need to post an error output or any code I use blockquotes and place the entire thing there. On two occasions my code has been edited and formatted in a way that it can be seen in a box with a horizontal scroll bar.

How can this be achieved?

Answer 1

If you select/highlight the content and click the <$> code icon it'll do one of two things for you:

1. If it's part of a line but not a full line, it'll wrap it in ` marks. This gives that section a grey background and changes the text to a monospace font, ideal for code samples.
2. If it's a full line, or multiple lines, it'll prepend each line with four spaces. This does all the scrollymagic as well as a fixed-width font.

You can do either of these manually but the code button makes it much easier. Don't use quotes for code or terminal samples.

Answer 2

You leave an empty line before the code block and the you indent every line by (at least) 4 blanks. See the tab Preformatted in the editing help.